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Consultants will end their strikes after accepting a new NHS pay offer that will see some receive rises of almost £20,000 a year.
The British Medical Association (BMA) said its members in England voted in favor with 83%, describing the offer as an improvement on one rejected earlier this year, as well as including changes to the company’s pay review body. profession (DDRB).
Consultants have gone on strike over the past year, adding to the NHS waiting list, which has also been affected by the junior doctors’ dispute, which remains unresolved.
This graph shows how consultant salaries will skyrocket under the updated offer now being presented to union members. The X axis shows compensation by years of experience. The solid base of each bar shows the salary of doctors for 2022/23. The lighter top section of the bar shows what the consultants will now earn under the new agreement. It means consultants with eight years’ experience will see their salaries rise by £19,459, or 12.8 per cent, from January 2024, compared to their earnings up to March 2023. While this group of doctors are the Biggest winners of the deal, those with just two years’ experience will see their salaries rise by £5,634, or six per cent: the government’s initial offer
The BMA said the offer includes significant changes to the DDRB, representing “significant progress” towards returning the pay review body to its “original purpose and independence”.
He said that from next year there will be changes to the way the review body will appoint its members and the Government will no longer be able to limit its mandate by reference to inflation targets and economic evidence.
The BMA added: ‘These changes mean that the DDRB can no longer ignore the historic losses doctors have suffered or the fact that overseas countries are competing for UK doctors with offers of significantly higher salaries.
“The offer also improves on the previous proposal to reform the salary scale for consultants.”
The accepted offer includes a 2.85% (£3,000) increase for those who have been consultants between four and seven years, who under the original offer received no further increase, the BMA said.
The offer is in addition to the 6% awarded during the DDRB process last summer.
Dr Vishal Sharma, who chairs the BMA consultants committee, said: ‘Last year consultants staged unprecedented strikes in our fight to address our concerns about pay and how the supposedly independent pay review process was working.
‘After years of repeated real terms pay cuts, caused by government interference and a failure in the pay review process, the consultants have spoken and now clearly feel that this offer is a sufficient first step to addressing our concerns. and end the current dispute.
‘However, it is now imperative that the DDRB uses its independence to restore doctors’ salaries and prevent further disputes from arising.
“We have reached this point not only thanks to our tough negotiations with the Government, but thanks to the determination of the consultants, who made the difficult decision to go on strike, and did so safely and effectively, on multiple occasions, sending a clear message that he would not back down.
‘At the heart of this dispute was our concern for patients and the future sustainability of the NHS. Without valuing doctors, we lose them. Without doctors, we have no NHS and patients suffer.
‘But the fight is not over yet. This is just the end of the beginning, and we still have a long way to go before the salaries that consultants have lost over the last 15 years are recovered. Therefore, all eyes will be on this year’s round of salary review, the DDRB’s recommendations and the Government’s response.’
Junior doctors and BMA consultants picket outside University College London Hospital during a three-day joint strike in October.
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