Frozen award values for consultants
List of awards that are frozen
Local Clinical Excellence Awards (LCEAs) (granted between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2021)
Pre-2018 Local Clinical Excellence Awards (Pre-2018 LCEAs)
National Clinical Excellence Awards (NCEAs)
Discretionary Points
Distinction Awards
This page provides details of the frozen values of the consultant awards that are no longer open to new applicants.
Retaining the information on this web page will support you when dealing with consultant employment and recruitment processes for those consultants that hold the closed awards.
These values have appeared in previous versions of the medical and dental pay and conditions circulars, and will not be included in future publications. They are not in the most recent pay circular (M&D) 5-2024 published on 15 August 2024.
Awards closed to new applications
LCEAs (granted between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2021)
| Awarded by local committees | |
|---|---|
Unit value of an employer based award. (Equivalent to one point) | 3,092 |
Pre-2018 LCEAs
Local clinical excellence awards granted prior to 1 April 2018 under existing local clinical excellence awards schemes in place as at 31 March 2018.
| Awarded by local committees | |
|---|---|
| Level 1 | 3,016 |
| Level 2 | 6,032 |
| Level 3 | 9,048 |
| Level 4 | 12,064 |
| Level 5 | 15,080 |
| Level 6 | 18,096 |
| Level 7 | 24,128 |
| Level 8 | 30,160 |
| Level 9 | 36,192 |
NCEAs
The award structure as was applied under the previous National Clinical Excellence Awards scheme has been retained here for the purposes of applying protection arrangements as set out in Schedule 30 of the Terms and Conditions – Consultants (England) 2003.
| Awarded by ACCEA | |
|---|---|
| Level 9 (Bronze) | 36,192 |
| Level 10 (Silver) | 47,582 |
| Level 11 (Gold) | 59,477 |
| Level 12 (Platinum) | 77,320 |
Discretionary Points*
| Pay scale code MC10/KC10 | |
|---|---|
| 1 | 3,268 |
| 2 | 6,536 |
| 3 | 9,804 |
| 4 | 13,072 |
| 5 | 16,340 |
| 6 | 19,608 |
| 7 | 22,876 |
| 8 | 26,144 |
Distinction Awards*
| A+ award | 77,415 |
| A award | 57,048 |
| B award | 32,601 |
*Information on Discretionary Points and Distinction Awards is included for those consultants in receipt of Discretionary Points and/or Distinction Awards which have not been subsumed by a new award under the current Clinical Excellence Awards scheme.
National Clinical Impact Awards replaced NCEAs in 2022. The values can be found in the latest relevant pay circular.
