The government has published the letters sent from health secretary Victoria Atkins asking the various pay review bodies to commence their pay round processes for 2024/25.
The government and the British Medical Association have agreed an offer which they will put to specialist, associate specialist and speciality (SAS) doctors.
Junior doctors in England are to hold further strikes in December and January after rejecting a new pay offer worth an extra 3% on average this year.
After industrial action continued into autumn, with junior doctors and consultants in England taking joint strike action for the first time ever.
The government has tabled a new offer to increase consultants’ pay and restructure their contract in an attempt to end doctors’ strike action.
Consultants’ unions in England are putting pay reform proposals to members following a new pay offer from the government.
The government has announced funding to cover one-off payments of at least £1,655 for eligible healthcare staff at non-NHS organisations such as charities, local authorities or social enterprises.
Healthcare leaders welcomed the government’s agreement to meet the BMA as a positive step towards resolving ongoing industrial action.
NHS doctors across England will receive a minimum of a 6% pay rise from this month.
The survey, which attracted responses from 50 finance directors in November, sought to understand how the pandemic had affected office working.