The boss of a huge social enterprise has said that the NHS bonus has betrayed some people. Andrew Burnell has been the chief executive of the Chief Care Partnership for quite some time and they are a company who provide a number of NHS services. If you work with a nurse agency, or if you are working with a number of carers who are looking for care jobs with a nursing recruitment agenc, you will know what a huge impact this can have on staff. The boss has come out to say that he would have to find £3.7 million in his budget to fund the bonus so he could help his healthcare workers. The government have been facing a lot of pressure when it comes to inequality around the general ineligibility and funding for the NHS pay deal. There are two elements to the deal. You have the consolidated average and you have a 5% pay rise for the year. You also have a one-off bonus which totals £1,655. It has come to light that only the AfC staff that are employed by the NHS directly are actually eligible for the bonus. This is being covered by central funding. This ultimately means that organisations that deliver NHS services and that employ nurses on digital contracts are being denied the bonus. Mr. Burnell has come out to say that right now, he has 1,800 staff working on contracts and a lot of them are community nurses. He has said that the omission from the bonus scheme is going to be rolled out to try and take note of the extra pressure that is being put on staff. This is the result of the pandemic and some believe that it is a bit of a kick in the teeth.