Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration remit letter: 2024 to 2025 pay round
Published 20 December 2023
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Mr Christopher Pilgrim
Chair, Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration
Office of Manpower Economics
Level 3, Windsor House
50 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0TL
Dear Mr Pilgrim,
I would firstly like to offer my thanks for the Review Body for Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration’s (DDRB’s) work over the past year on the 2023 to 2024 report. The government appreciates the independent, expert advice and valuable contribution that the DDRB makes.
I write to you now to formally commence the 2024 to 2025 pay round. I am asking you to provide recommendations in line with your terms of reference and would welcome your report by May 2024.
As you will be aware, the government has recently been involved in talks with various medical groups. In the case of consultants, this has resulted in an offer around pay scale reform that has been put to members. This offer does not affect the pay award consultants received this financial year and should not interfere with your recommendations for 2024 to 2025. In the case of ongoing talks, these should also not impact on your recommendations.
With that in mind, we invite you to make recommendations on an annual pay award for all doctors and dentists, including contractor General Medical Practitioners.
For specialty and specialist (SAS) doctors, you will be aware of the multi-year pay and contract reform deal agreed with the British Medical Association (BMA) in 2021. SAS doctors on the 2021 contract are no longer in a multi-year pay deal so I invite you to make recommendations for all SAS doctors.
Independent contractor General Medical Practitioners are no longer subject to a 5-year pay agreement between NHS England and the BMA. We invite you to make recommendations on uplifts for General Medical Practitioner contractors.
As always, while your remit covers the whole of the United Kingdom, it is for each administration to make its own decisions on its approach to this year’s pay round and to communicate this to you directly.
I would like to thank you again for your and the DDRB’s invaluable contribution to the pay round and look forward to receiving your report for 2024 to 2025 in due course.
Yours ever,
Victoria Atkins, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care