Unite says NHS talks were a 'missed opportunity', as unions say this week's strikes will go ahead.
Onay Kasab, from the Unite union, said the government had suggested during the talks earlier that any one-off payments would have to be based on "productivity savings".
"The principle that as a country we can afford to do more if we can make ourselves more productive seems to me to be pretty common sense stuff," he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.on iPlayer and find out more about why people are striking and whether industrial action works. "We did actually manage to talk about pay - we didn't get the tangible concessions that we might have hoped for that would enable us to call off the [ambulance worker] strikes later this week," she said.
Elaine Sparkes, from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, said the talks were "more constructive" than previous meetings but "there is nothing tangible on the table" and the union would announce strike dates later this week.A government source said Health Secretary Steve Barclay discussed productivity and efficiency savings which would help decide what was affordable for the coming year's pay deal.
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