UPDATE: 28 March 2023
The member consultation on the new NHS pay offer for NHS Agenda for Change staff in England is now open and will close on Friday 14 April. The consultation is being run by UNISON, however all MiP members who are on Agenda for Change and working in England are eligible to take part.
All eligible MiP members will receive a unique link by email directly from UNISON. By following this link, you will be able to cast your vote in the consultation process. Further details are available here.
If you have not received your email by Monday 3 April, please contact MiP head office.
Following months of strike action, the UK government have made a new and significantly improved pay offer for NHS staff in England.
The offer comprises of an additional lump sum payment (varying per pay band) for the 2022/23 pay round on top of the £1,400 consolidated payment awarded last year, a 5% permanent percentage increase to salary from April 2023, and a number of non-pay elements which will be discussed for possible implementation through the NHS Staff Council in England. Please read on below for full details of the offer.
“The decision however, is for members to make. Whatever the outcome, they will be backed by MiP.”
For the 2022/23 pay year, the government have offered two additional lump sum payments which are non-consolidated and therefore not pensionable. This means they are one-off payments and will not be added to your annual salary going forward.
The payments consist of:
The percentage element and the backlog bonus are added together to give the total non-consolidated payment for 2022/23. This lump sum payment is on top of the £1,400 consolidated pay rise already awarded.
The total non-consolidated payments for the entry and top points of bands 8-9 work out as:
The above non-consolidated payments will be issued pro-rata if an NHS worker worked only part-time of the 2022/23 pay year.
For the 2023/24 pay round, beginning on April 1 2023, the government have offered NHS staff a consolidated pay increase of 5% to annual salary. This means the award is a permanent increase to your salary and therefore is pensionable.
The payment consists of:
The total consolidated payments and the new base salary for the entry and top points of bands 8-9 work out as:
The above figures reflect base salary from April 2023. This pay will be backdated to April 2023 if the pay offer is accepted and implemented later than April 2023.
There are also a number of non-pay elements which have been agreed to be discussed as part of the overall offer. It should be noted that the agreement commits government, NHS employers and trade unions to only discuss and consider solutions to these areas facilitated by the NHS Staff Council. There is no guarantee as part of the agreed offer that these non-pay elements will result in policy in change. The agreement is that the NHS Staff Council will look into these areas and make recommendations by April 2024.
The non-pay measures include commitments to look into the following areas:
For full details of the overall offer, including full salary and payment breakdowns for each band and for further information on the non-pay elements, please see the NHS Employers website here.
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