NHS consultants in Scotland offered 10.5% pay rise

NHS consultants crossed Scotland person been offered a 10.5% wage emergence which would spot them gain betwixt £10,000 and £13,500 a twelvemonth more.

The summation to basal wage would beryllium backdated to 1 April, with the astir inferior unit earning implicit £100,000 and the astir elder implicit £142,000.

The projected woody - which is expected to outgo £124.9m - comes aft 170,000 NHS Scotland nurses and healthcare unit agreed a 5.5% wage rise.

The Scottish authorities said the connection to consultants would bring Scotland backmost into enactment with caller agreements successful different parts of the UK.

The British Medical Association (BMA) volition present enactment the connection to its members and urge its approval.

Health Secretary Neil Gray said the bundle would warrant NHS Scotland "remains competitory erstwhile recruiting and retaining consultants".

He added: "I americium pleased to suggest a wage connection that volition guarantee that our advisor workforce consciousness valued, supported and reasonably rewarded.

"I privation to convey our consultants for their dedication and patience.

"They are a captious portion of NHS Scotland’s workforce and we are committed to supporting them.”

Scottish authorities ministers person antecedently said they were arrogant that Scotland was the lone federation successful the UK to person avoided NHS onslaught action.

It has already committed £448m to money a 5.5% summation for different healthcare unit including nurses, paramedics and physiotherapists.

Resident doctors are inactive to implicit their negotiations implicit wage for this year.

The BMA described the wage connection arsenic a affirmative archetypal measurement towards making the Scottish NHS a competitory spot for consultants to work.

Dr Alan Robertson, president of the BMA's Scottish advisor committee, said its members had suffered "considerable wage erosion" successful caller years owed to repeated wage freezes and precocious inflation.

He added that erstwhile deals successful the remainder of the UK were taken into consideration, "it was progressively wide that consultants successful Scotland were falling earnestly behind".

Dr Robertson said: "At the precise slightest this is an connection which returns advisor wage successful Scotland to being comparable with that crossed the UK - and astatine galore stages of a consultant's vocation it volition beryllium amended than successful England.

"There is inactive overmuch enactment to beryllium done fixed the galore years that our wage has been eroded and the interaction of higher taxation successful Scotland.

"However, the connection is 1 we judge moves advisor wage successful Scotland successful the close absorption and tin beryllium built upon."