NHS Employers responds to NHS pay announcements

"To have finally reached an offer that can now be put to the BMA’s junior doctor (‘Resident’) members is a massively positive development and all those involved in the work that has led to this point deserve our thanks.  

"Leaders across the NHS will hope that the BMA’s recommendation of this hard-won deal will be fulsome and will be supported by their members.  The NHS has endured the longest period in its history of industrial unrest, and we have to hope that our patients and people will finally see an end to the disruption that has disfigured the last two years.  

"NHS organisations, Medical Royal Colleges and health regulators must also work together to ensure that the employment and educational experience of postgraduate doctors in England is dramatically improved.

"As the deal with junior doctors and the recommendations of the pay review body for non-medical staff make clear there are now opportunities for longer term review of the way in which the NHS rewards its people.  

"For non-medical staff there is the opportunity to do this in a considered and strategic manner, working with trade unions to support planned improvements to healthcare delivery over the next 10 years whilst also modernising contracts and ensuring that the NHS remains an attractive place to choose to work in an ever more challenging labour market.   

"NHS leaders accept that modernised pay, pensions and contracts are by themselves an incomplete if essential element of good employment: we must for our part ensure an equally ambitious, fairer and more flexible experience for all our people.  

"NHS Employers looks forward to working with trade unions from across the NHS workforce to support the new government in this endeavour."