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GP pay looks set to remain frozen in 2014/15 despite years of restraint and rapidly falling morale, after the organisation leading contract talks with the GPC backed a continued freeze on NHS staff pay.
In evidence submitted to the review body that advises the government on NHS employees' pay, NHS Employers argued that pay must remain frozen in 2014/15.
It argued that a 1% rise in NHS staff pay would cost ?500m and is 'unaffordable and unnecessary'.
On Friday this week, it plans to echo this message in evidence to the DDRB, which advises the government on doctors' pay. Evidence from NHS Employers will be limited to advising the DDRB on pay for doctors directly employed by the health service, with NHS England set to submit separate evidence on pay for GP contractors.
http://www.gponline.com/News/article/1213198/Pay-freeze-continue-says-NHS-Employers/
Given that the government is supposed to be encouraging GPs to take more of a role in taking care away from hospitals, they should be trying to attract more doctors into general practice, not undermining the reasons for them to do the work
In evidence submitted to the review body that advises the government on NHS employees' pay, NHS Employers argued that pay must remain frozen in 2014/15.
It argued that a 1% rise in NHS staff pay would cost ?500m and is 'unaffordable and unnecessary'.
On Friday this week, it plans to echo this message in evidence to the DDRB, which advises the government on doctors' pay. Evidence from NHS Employers will be limited to advising the DDRB on pay for doctors directly employed by the health service, with NHS England set to submit separate evidence on pay for GP contractors.
http://www.gponline.com/News/article/1213198/Pay-freeze-continue-says-NHS-Employers/
Given that the government is supposed to be encouraging GPs to take more of a role in taking care away from hospitals, they should be trying to attract more doctors into general practice, not undermining the reasons for them to do the work
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