NHS: Conditions of Employment

(asked on 7th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the Agenda for Change job grades which have been re-evaluated in each of the last five years for which figures are available.


Answered by
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Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 13th September 2017

This information is not collected centrally. Evaluation of National Health Service job roles is a matter for local NHS employers.

The NHS Job Evaluation Scheme applies to staff employed under the Agenda for Change pay framework. It is a national framework designed to ensure staff receive equal pay for work of equal value and is managed and delivered locally.

Exceptionally, in December 2016, ambulance trade unions, ambulance trusts, the Department, NHS Employers, NHS England and NHS Improvement reached agreement on a national re-banding exercise, based on re-evaluation of the paramedic job profile given changes in the paramedic role, that will see eligible paramedics re-evaluated from pay band 5 (£22,128 up to £28,746 ) to pay band 6 (£26,525 up to £35,577). The re-banding exercise is ongoing.

Job evaluation data is not held centrally.

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