NHS Employers have branded it “unreasonable” for consultants in England to ask for hourly rates of up to £262 to provide emergency cover during the junior doctors strike
from 13 March after talks broke down between Health Secretary Steve Barclay and junior doctors over a new pay deal.
The BMA said the overnight rate is based on the “bottom end of the normal rate expected for a lawyer, accountant or management consultant during daytime hours”. “Consultants, having themselves experienced real-terms pay cuts of more than a third over the last 15 years, know all too well the damaging impact“On strike days it is the responsibility of employers to ensure that services are staffed safely, and they have been given adequate notice of when the action is set to take place.
“These rates therefore reflect the market value of doctors’ work”, he said, “The BMA rate card rates are recommended for all work undertaken outside of the normal contract and they are therefore appropriate to use for covering absent junior doctors as this work is quite clearly extra-contractual.”
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