In summer 2010, the new Chancellor announced a two-year public sector pay freeze from 2011/12.
Consultants were already experiencing a pay freeze in 2010/2011, so their pay will not rise over a three-year period.
The corresponding freeze in the value of clinical excellence awards will also continue. CEAs will be subject to change, and are likely to be reduced, following a review by the Pay Review Body which will report to the government in summer 2011.
NHS staff earning less than £21,000 will receive a flat pay rise worth £250 in both of the next two years. The Chancellor said the measures would save £3.3 billion a year by 2014-15.
While foundation year doctors, house officers, senior house officers, specialty registrars, specialty doctors, associate specialists and salaried GPs in England received a 1% pay rise for 2010/2011, they are now subject to the pay freeze.
Doctors are also awaiting the government’s response to a review of their pension benefits, with the likelihood of their contributions being increased for inferior benefits.
In 2009/2010, all doctors received a 1.5% pay rise.
Consultant salaries 2011/2012
Threshold 1, years completed as a consultant 0, £74,504, period before eligibility for next threshold one year
Threshold 2, years completed as a consultant 1, £76,837, period before eligibility for next threshold one year
Threshold 3, years completed as a consultant 2, £79,170, period before eligibility for next threshold one year
Threshold 4, years completed as a consultant 3, £81,502, period before eligibility for next threshold one year
Threshold 5, years completed as a consultant 4, £83,829, period before eligibility for next threshold five years
Threshold 6, years completed as a consultant 9, £89,370, period before eligibility for next threshold five years
Threshold 7, years completed as a consultant 14, £94,911, period before eligibility for next threshold five years
Threshold 8, years completed as a consultant 19, £100,446
Clinical excellence awards for consultants
Level 1 £2,957
Level 2 £5,914
Level 3 £8,871
Level 4 £11,828
Level 5 £14,785
Level 6 £17,742
Level 7 £23,656
Level 8 £29,570
Bronze/Level 9 £35,484
Silver/Level 10 £46,644
Gold/Level 11 £58,305
Platinum/Level 12 £75,796
More on Clinical Excellence Awards
Trainee salaries 2011/2012
Grade FHO1
Point minimum, no band £23,533, 1C band (20%) £26,895, 1B band (40%) £31,377
Point 1, no band £25,002, 1C band (20%) £28,574, 1B band (40%) £33,336
Point 2, no band £26,470, 1C band (20%) £30,251, 1B band (40%) £35,293
Grade FHO2
Point minimum, no band £27,798, 1C band (20%) £33,358, 1B band (40%) £38,918
Point 1, no band £29,616, 1C band (20%) £35,540, 1B band (40%) £41,463
Point 2, no band £31,434, 1C band (20%) £37,721, 1B band (40%) £44,008
Grade StR
Point minimum, no band £29,705, 1C band (20%) £35,646, 1B band (40%) £41,587
Point 1, no band £31,523, 1C band (20%) £37,828, 1B band (40%) £41,133
Point 2, no band £34,061, 1C band (20%) £40,874, 1B band (40%) £47,686
Point 3, no band £35,596, 1C band (20%) £42,716, 1B band (40%) £49,835
Point 4, no band £37,448, 1C band (20%) £44,938, 1B band (40%) £52,428
Point 5, no band £39,300, 1C band (20%) £47,160, 1B band (40%) £55,020
Point 6, no band £41,152, 1C band (20%) £49,383 1B band (40%) £57,613
Point 7, no band £43,003, 1C band (20%) £51,604, 1B band (40%) £60,205
Point 8, no band £44,856, 1C band (20%) £53,828, 1B band (40%) £62,799
Point 9, no band £46,708, 1C band (20%) £56,050, 1B band (40%) £65,392
Specialty doctor salaries 2011/2012
Scale value minimum, £36,807, period before eligibility for next pay point one year
Scale value 1, £39,955, period before eligibility for next pay point one year
Scale value 2, £44,046, period before eligibility for next pay point one year
Scale value 3, £46,239, period before eligibility for next pay point one year
Scale value 4, £49,398, period before eligibility for next pay point one year
Scale value 5, £52,546, period before eligibility for next pay point two years
Scale value 6, £55,764, period before eligibility for next pay point two years
Scale value 7, £58,983, period before eligibility for next pay point two years
Scale value 8, £62,201, period before eligibility for next pay point three years
Scale value 9, £65,419, period before eligibility for next pay point three years
Scale value 10, £68,638
Associate specialist salaries 2011/2012
Scale value minimum, £51,606, period before eligibility for next pay point one year
Scale value 1, £55,754, period before eligibility for next pay point one year
Scale value 2, £59,901, period before eligibility for next pay point one year
Scale value 3, £65,378, period before eligibility for next pay point one year
Scale value 4, £70,126, period before eligibility for next pay point one year
Scale value 5, £72,095, period before eligibility for next pay point two years
Scale value 6, £74,665, period before eligibility for next pay point two years
Scale value 7, £77,235, period before eligibility for next pay point two years
Scale value 8, £79,805, period before eligibility for next pay point three years
Scale value 9, £82,375, period before eligibility for next pay point three years
Scale value 10, £84,948
Read the full pay scales.
Tags: CEAs, Consultants, Juniors, Pay, SAS doctors
The problem I fundamentally have is the duplicity and double standards in the way the medical profession has been recently reformed…
On the one hand, professional autonomy, self governance of our working hours and consequently some pay has been taken away from us…
…on the other hand people complain when we then insist on being payed for the roles and hours that have been imposed on us…
Surgical training is a prime example - the reduction in hours means that less junior doctors are on the wards, consequently, more senior doctors that should be training in theatre and clinics are covering their duties and not getting trained. The ‘old-school’ consultants who set the training agenda insist on the old standards still being met in the same timeframe - consequently this year I have worked 22 days of annual leave to gain operating experience plus around 500+hours of day-to-day work which I will never be payed or renumerated for.
The problem is we’re bent over a barrel - If we worked to rule, people would soon realise the value we get from junior doctors, however no-one would be willing to do this because patients would suffer and at the end of the year you’d be ejected from your training programmes…
@ Ortho SpR, my sympathies with you. Been in orthopaedics since 1991 and almost an old indian dog! Back in 2004 had a visit from a high ranking official from the RCSE. His vision then was that training would produce candidates suitable to work as part of a team of consultants rather than an independent consultant who could provide all round care. Guess his vision is now coming true. The NHS is going to the dogs were cost cutting at grass root level provides finances to pay for new posts like Deputy Chief Executives and a general proliferation of dandelions called managers!
Completely agree with you. Instead of paper monitoring of hours worked, we should have a swipe system which will calculate the hours we worked. This would mean we do not have to beg consultants to sign on the paper, is a more robust system and if we are not remunerated then we should be allowed time in liu. We all know we work atleast one hour extra daily on a minimum, many times without any break for food.This is expected from us and we do it coz our patient concerns
Not sure I agree with this. I am 52 and been a consultant 17 years. Worked 1 in 2 for 5 years in training with an average of 104 hours per week. Now faced with covering the exhausted trainees who do less than half of what we did. In paediatrics we are staring resident consultant working right down the barrel. I guess it will vary from specialty to specialty but life for trainees is much better now than it was. Only dilemma is we may all be resident until we’re 60
When you are discussing hospital consultant salaries in the UK (junior docs - remember this is what you will get in the future), it may be worth comparing the current situation with what is happening elsewhere, such as in Ireland.
If you look at http://saraburke.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/consultants-dissatisfied-with-cut-backs/, you will find out what consultants are paid in Ireland.
To quote from the above: “…. consultants working public only starting salary is €166,000 but can earn up to €208,000 if they become a professor with a public only consultant. Those on Type B contracts, which allows public and private work, start at €156,000 but can earn more, if they take on additional roles.”
What about CEAs you might say? Well, even if you are one of the tiny number of UK consultants who manage to claw there way up to being awarded a platinum CE award (and, remember, only a handful of these are available annually - and anyway CEAs may even be withdrawn this year in the same way as they have already been in Scotland), you can get up to £175,000, but only for the last few years of your career. Remember also that this is the sort of salary that all Irish consultants are receiving from the outset of their taking up a consultant post and, unlike in the UK, not just a few who have managed to get to the top of a very greasy pole.
Don’t kid yourself that we are well paid in the UK compared to equivalent countries. Take a look at what doctors are paid in Australia and the USA as well.
If you add to that that the NHS enjoys pretty well a 100% monopoly of our labour, as the UK’s private sector is so tiny (at least outside of London) that you really have nowhere else that you can work, when it comes to negotiating our own pay and conditions we British doctors have managed to put ourselves into a pretty dreadful situation with no aces to play. Where did all those brains that acquired all those A grades at A level to get into medical school disappear to???? Don’t blame governments completely - we are a useless shower when it comes to presenting a collective face and standing up for ourselves.
There are some compensations however. At least you can take some comfort out of the fact that your pay freeze is helping those nice bankers and captains of industry to earn their justly-deserved millions!!!! In addition, isn’t it fun to live up to all those lavish promises that Labour made on your behalf about how hard you would work.
The pay for consultants in Ireland as been cut by between 15 and 25% since that report.
There are no merit awards and income tax is effectively 55%.
A new consultant on a public only salary starts at 155k, take home per month would be about £4000.
Look at publicjobs.ie for the pay scales.
Stop with all the moaning! Some poor sods have lost their jobs and families are really suffering (come on The_Thinker don’t confuse “there” and “their” - did you really get straight ‘A’s?). My mate who is a graduate engineer- works all the hours God sends- very much neglecting his family and he doesn’t take home more than £2k a month! He got straight A’s at A-level and a first class degree to boot from a very reputable university. When he hears a mention of a final salary pension he could cry!
I’m sick of all the moaning. If you don’t like it stop being a martyr and leave. More cash, better lifestyle, glory, fame and the beatiful ladies all await you bigshot geniuses languishing in the NHS overseas!
Two wrongs don’t make a right JS. Without the “moaning” there’ll be no change and moving overseas is a bad move since the NHS spends thousands training doctors/medical students.
I don’t understand why it takes us long years to train and possibly not enjoy a balanced life for most of our working career, where do we go from here?
Your GP colleagues are on a deal that costs the NHS more than it should.They now do far less hours than say 12 years ago and are on much more money. They no longer have to do out of hours or weekends and as most are “self employed” also get major tax breaks.
All the forums seem to discuss consultants’ pay- do you ever think about the speciality doctors who got the worst deal when contracts were negotiated; then neither consultants nor trainees came out fighting against the injustices the SAS were being subjected. Of course it did not matter then as most SAS were IMGs of a different hue.What was meted to the SAS is now being done (in a way) to us all- so to all those who stayed on the sidelines when SAS doctors were crying for your cooperation enjoy now the humiliation of being told your labour is overvalued.