Pay award announcement 2024

Today, 29 July, the government has announced the 2024/25 pay award for staff under the remits of the NHS Pay Review Body (NHS PRB) and Doctors’ and Dentists’ Review Body (DDRB).

Details of the award are summarised below:

NHS PRB

• With effect from 1 April 2024, a 5.5 per cent consolidated uplift for all Agenda for Change staff on NHS terms and conditions.

DDRB

For doctors and dentists this will mean uplifting salaries by six per cent, applying to:  

• consultants  

• specialty and specialist (SAS) doctors 

• doctors and dentists in training  who will also receive a uplift of £1,000 

• salaried dentists, including those working in community dental services and public dental services  

• contractor general medical practitioners  

• salaried general medical practitioners pay ranges  

• pay element of dental contracts   

• no uplifts in Local Clinical Excellence Awards (these remain frozen).

All pay uplifts will be backdated to 1 April 2024. 

Pay resources

We are now working to update all the materials on our website to enable you to communicate the details of the pay awards to your teams and will publish these as soon as we are able.

We will update all the relevant material in response to the announcement, including updates to the NHS terms and conditions of service handbook and publication of a pay advisory notice (Agenda for Change) and a pay circular (medical and dental).

Further updates will follow shortly, including notification of when the above material can be accessed on the NHS Employers website.

Further information:

• Read the NHS Pay Review Body report.
• Read the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration report.
• Read the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) report.
• Read the written Ministerial statement. 
• NHS Confederation responds to NHS pay announcements.
• Read NHS Employers' 2024/25 evidence to the pay review bodies.