Junior Doctors: Pay

(asked on 20th July 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of the pay demand made by the British Medical Association junior doctors committee.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 4th September 2023

The British Medical Association junior doctors committee has asked for an average pay rise of around 35% from 2021-22 pay scales. This would cost over £2 billion on top of the existing pay award to junior doctors for 2022/23.

This is an estimate of the expected cost if the pay rise were given in 2023/24. The exact cost will vary depending on the workforce size and composition. It represents the gross cost of the uplift payable from National Health Service funding, covering junior doctors working in hospital and general practitioner settings, and allowing for full system costs beyond the substantive workforce.

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