The scheme allocating one-off payments for health workers or those that work in the NHS, but are not directly employed by the NHS, is now complete and all organisations have been informed of the outcome.

Last year, more than one million NHS staff on the Agenda for Change contract, received two one-off payments. This included nurses, paramedics, 999 call handlers, midwives, security guards and cleaners.

However, it did not include those who were not directly employed by NHS organisations, such as community nurses, sexual health workers, speech-and-language therapists, physiotherapists, and other frontline workers.

In November, a scheme was launched to provide non-NHS organisations with funding to cover the cost of the one-off payments for their eligible staff. The scheme is now complete and all organisations have been informed of their outcome.

The payments will be provided to organisations which deliver NHS and Public Health Grant services who employ their staff on dynamically linked Agenda for Change contracts.

The funding will be used to deliver two one-off payments, worth at least £1,655 and up to £3,000, for over 27,000 healthcare workers in England.

Health and social care secretary Victoria Atkins said: "I hugely value the hard work of all our healthcare staff, and those working in non-NHS organisations offer vital support to patients.

"I want to ensure that eligible staff receive these payments, which is why we chose to deliver this funding and why we have taken the decision to relax the financial eligibility criteria employers must meet.

"It will ensure that hardworking staff and the organisations they work for can fully benefit from the NHS pay deal."