Efforts to integrate health and care services will be undermined if some health and care staff are awarded a pay-rise while others miss out, the NHS Confed...
Posts Tagged ‘Pay’
Consultant Contract delayed until the New Year as negotiations falter over poor pay rise
By Mike Broad - September 20th, 2018
The ongoing consultant contract negotiations between the BMA and NHS Employers have been further delayed. After years of negotiations, a new consultant ...
RCN chief steps down in wake of row over ‘misrepresented’ NHS pay deal
The Independent - August 23rd, 2018
The head of the trade union and professional body which represents 435,000 nurses, midwives and students has stepped down in the face of criticism over how...
Government accused of giving NHS consultants a 0.75% pay rise for this year
By Mike Broad - July 27th, 2018
The Chair of the BMA Consultants Committee has attacked the Government over the "derisory and outrageous" pay rise offered to consultants. The Governmen...
Row over Agenda for Change pay deal as some nurses are worse off
By Mike Broad - July 27th, 2018
A row has broken out over the proposed three-year Agenda for Change pay deal agreed earlier this year. Following the lifting of the 1% pay cap by the go...
NHS consultants to receive just 1.5% in pay rise, Treasury announces
By Mike Broad - July 24th, 2018
Unions are disappointed at the Government’s much-hyped pay rise for public sector workers calling it “inadequate”. The Treasury has announced that...
Clinical Excellence Awards are set to continue but new ones will be non-pensionable
By Mike Broad - March 22nd, 2018
Clinical Excellence Awards will continue in future and NHS trusts will be obliged to run the scheme for their consultants. However, from April 2018, new...
Unions agree NHS pay deal for 1.3 million Agenda for Change staff
BBC Health - March 22nd, 2018
More than one million NHS staff, including nurses, porters and paramedics, are being offered increases of at least 6.5% over three years - with some gettin...
NHS staff offered 6.5% pay rise over three years if they forfeit day’s holiday
The Guardian - March 9th, 2018
The government is set to offer around 1 million NHS staff a 6.5% pay rise over the next three years but is insisting that health workers give up a day’s ...
BMA calls on government to give doctors a 2% pay rise for 2018-2019
By Mike Broad - February 15th, 2018
Doctors deserve a 2% pay rise for 2018-19. That’s the conclusion of the BMA in its annual submission to the Review Body on Doctors and Dentists Pay. ...
Continued pay restraint for NHS staff will have adverse effects on the service
By Mike Broad - September 20th, 2017
Further public sector pay restraint will make it harder to recruit and retain high quality staff and have knock-on effects on the quality of NHS services a...
