Health Professions: Pay

(asked on 22nd January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS England (a) nurses, (b) doctors and (c) allied healthcare professionals are employed on salaries below £30,000 per year in each (a) hospital and (b) NHSTrust; and if he will make a statement.


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Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 28th January 2019

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.

The attached table shows the number of doctors, nurses and health visitors and allied healthcare professional staff whose total earnings are under £30,000 in National Health Service trusts, CCGs, Support Organisations and Central Bodies in England, between October 2017 and September 2018, headcount.

These figures use the total annual earnings of staff which includes basic pay and non-basic pay elements. Non-basic pay includes, where applicable, unsocial hours payments, on call payments and high cost area supplements. These figures also include staff working on a part time basis, who tend to have lower annual earnings than those on full time contracts. It is possible that if a part time member of staff worked full time, they would earn more than £30,000.

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