NHS Employers recommends extending doctors’ pay freeze

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NHS Employers has recommended that the Doctors and Dentists Review Body (DDRB) should extend the freeze on doctors’ pay for another year, a move that has angered the BMA. The association, which will be submitting its own evidence to the DDRB later this week, said that this was yet another blow to doctors’ morale in the wake of changes to their pensions. In its annual submission to the DDRB, which will issue its recommendations early next year, NHS Employers said that extending the pay freeze would help organisations maintain the quality of NHS patients’ care while plugging the “unprecedented” financial shortfall and keeping job losses to a minimum. …