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Graph showing change in pay for porters,nurses, GPs, consultants and NHS trust chief executives from1996/7 to 2005/6

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Tony Blair's premiership has seen NHS pay rise sharply.

GPs, consultants and nurses have all negotiated new contracts.

Family doctors have benefited the most, seeing pay more than double, and becoming among the best-paid GPs in Europe in the process.

The government has said the pay rises have been essential to increase the staffing levels in the health service.

But critics have been quick to point out that the pay deals have gobbled up much of the new money being ploughed into the NHS.
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