NHS: Pay

(asked on 23rd October 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to revise the pay bands introduced in the NHS Agenda for Change programme.


Answered by
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 30th October 2014

The Agenda for Change pay system is a national collective agreement managed in partnership between National Health Service trade unions and NHS Employers (the representative organisation for NHS employers). Any changes are currently agreed in partnership via national collective bargaining.

The underlying banding structure within Agenda for Change, supported by job evaluation provides for equal pay for work of equal value and is sound.

However, the Government does wish to see further changes to Agenda for Change; including structural reform so that there is a much stronger link to performance and that the highest pay within any band is received by those staff who make the greatest contribution.

Agenda for Change also needs to be fairer across all pay bands, rather than currently where higher paid staff receive higher progression. We have urged NHS trade unions to work with NHS Employers on longer term reform of Agenda for Change to ensure it is fairer and financially sustainable.

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