NHS Employers calls for an end to incremental pay increases for consultants and junior doctors

Abstract

NHS Employers wants to bring an end to incremental pay increases for consultants and junior doctors. The organisation set out this proposal in its submission of evidence to the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration.1 Negotiations on contracts for consultants in England and Northern Ireland and for junior doctors across the United Kingdom were referred to the review body in October 2014 after talks between the BMA and NHS Employers stalled.2 Under the current contract, consultants’ pay increases incrementally …