Hospital doctors’ pay has increased by 0.4% since last year
BMJ 2014; 349 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g5846 (Published 23 September 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g5846
Hospital doctors’ pay rose by 0.4% from June 2013 to June 2014, figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre show.
On average, NHS doctors in England, including consultants and registrars but excluding locums and GPs, earned £59 051, a 0.4% increase on the 2013 figure, the centre said.1 Earlier this week, figures released by the centre showed that contractor GPs’ pay had fallen from £104 100 before tax in 2011-12 to £102 000 in 2012-13.2
The figures on NHS staff pay also showed that locum hospital practitioners and clinical assistant doctors received the largest annual pay increase between June 2013 and June 2014, taking their pay up 4.4% to £62 895. Conversely, doctors in training saw their pay fall by 0.2% to £26 007 in the same period.
On average, hospital consultants earned £111 490, of which £83 607 was basic pay, in the 12 months to the end of June 2014, a 1.2% increase on the June 2013 figure. Just over half (52%) of consultants received a merit award between June 2013 and June 2014, worth £14 889 on average.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre also released data on NHS sickness absence, which showed that in May 2014 medical and dental staff in England had an absence rate of 1.2%.3 This was 0.1 percentage points lower than in May 2010 and 2.7 percentage points lower than the NHS average of 3.9% in May 2014.
The NHS staff headcount overall has increased by 2%, from 1 179 396 in June 2013 to 1 203 519 in June 2014.4 This included 107 707 non-locum and 2448 locum hospital doctors.