Pay advisory notice 02/2024
This notice advises of the publication of version 57 of the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook on 20 August 2024. The list of amendments are detailed below:
| Is the section new or amended? | Section / annex of the NHS TCS Handbook | Key amendments |
| Amended | Annex 2: Pay bands and pay points on the second pay spine in England. | - Pay scales for the financial year 2024/25 have been updated to reflect the 2024/25 pay award to include intermediate pay points for band 8a and above, effective from 1 April 2024.
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Pay advisory notice 01/2024
This notice advises of the publication of version 56 of the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook on 1 August 2024. The list of amendments are detailed below:
NHS terms and conditions of service advisory notice 03/2024
This notice advises of the publication of version 55 of the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook on 1 July 2024. The list of amendments are detailed below:
| Is the section new or amended? | Section / annex of the NHS TCS Handbook | Key amendments |
| Amended | Section 1: Pay Structure (England) | - Section 1.25 and 1.26 have been added to reflect and agreement made by the NHS Staff Council to ensure that existing NHS staff will not suffer a detriment to their basic pay when they undertake apprenticeships as part of agreed career development.
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| New | Annex 30: Apprenticeships | - Annex 30 has been added to reflect and agreement made by the NHS Staff Council to support the addition of section 1.25 and 1.26 to ensure that existing NHS staff will not suffer a detriment to their basic pay when they undertake apprenticeships as part of agreed career development.
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NHS terms and conditions of service advisory notice 02/2024
This notice advises of the publication of version 54 of the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook on 18 April 2024. The list of amendments are detailed below:
| Is the section new or amended? | Section / annex of the NHS TCS Handbook | Key amendments |
| Amended | Section 33: Balancing work and personal life (England, Wales & NI) | - Paragraph 33.23 amended to reference the statutory Carers Leave Act 2023, in force on 6 April 2024.
- Paragraph 33.28 amended to include provision for employees’ day 1 statutory right to unpaid leave, per the statutory Carers Leave Act 2023.
- Paragraphs 33.5, 33.13 and 33.16 amended to reflect the Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act 2023 (in force on 6 April 2024), including the requirement for employers to consult employees before refusing flexible working requests.
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| Amended | Section 27: Working time regulations | |
NHS terms and conditions of service advisory notice 01/2024
This notice advises of the publication of version 53 of the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook on 8 March 2024. The list of amendments are detailed below:
| Is the section new or amended? | Section / annex of the NHS TCS Handbook | Key amendments |
| New | Section 1: Pay Structure (Northern Ireland) | - The addition of a new section on pay structure, specific to the Northern Ireland devolved administration.
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| Amended | Section 1: Pay Structure (Scotland) | - Section 1: Pay Structure (Scotland and Northern Ireland) has been amended to apply specifically and solely to the Scotland devolved administration.
- Introduction (Scotland) added to reflect the change.
- Principles and partnership (Scotland) added to Part 1: Principles and partnership to reflect the change.
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| New | Section 2: Maintaining round the clock services (Northern Ireland) | - The addition of a new section on maintaining round the clock services, specific to the Northern Ireland devolved administration.
- Table 2 reflects the latest unsocial hours rates.
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| Amended | Section 2: Maintaining round the clock services (Scotland) | - Section 1: Maintaining round the clock services (Scotland and Northern Ireland) amended to apply specifically and solely to the Scotland devolved administration.
- References to a historic ambulance service have been removed.
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| New | Section 6: Career and pay progression (Northern Ireland) | - The addition of a new section on career and pay progression, specific to the Northern Ireland devolved administration.
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| Amended | Section 6: Career and pay progression (Scotland) | - Section 6: Career and pay progression (Scotland and Northern Ireland) amended to apply specifically and solely to the Scotland devolved administration.
- The revised section reflects Scotland’s approach to career development and incremental progression agreed as part of the 2018 Agenda for Change pay deal.
- The grounds for deferral of pay progression removed for relevance.
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| Amended | Section 15: Leave and pay for new parents | - Section 15: Maternity leave (Northern Ireland) removed; Section 15: Leave and pay for new parents covers England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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| Amended | Section 15: Leave and pay for new parents | |
| Amended | Section 23: Child bereavement leave | - Section 23 Child Bereavement leave (England, Wales and Scotland) superseded with this Section 23: Child bereavement leave, which covers England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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| Amended | Section 40: National Bodies and procedures | - ‘Deputy First Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety’ removed, and replaced with ‘Deputy First Minister for Health’, for accuracy.
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| Amended | Annex 1: NHS Employers | - Annex 1 employers in England updated: Clinical Commissioning Groups and The NHS Commissioning Board removed; Monitor (NHS Improvement), NHS Trust Development Agency (NHS Improvement), and The Health and Social Care Information Centre refreshed and restructured for accuracy.
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