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Agenda for Change (AfC) is the current National Health Service (NHS) grading and pay system for NHS staff, with the exception of doctors, dentists, apprentices and some senior managers. It covers more than 1 million people and harmonises their pay scales and career progression arrangements across traditionally separate pay groups, in the most ...
Pay bands (sometimes also used as a broader term that encompasses several pay levels, ranges or grades) is a part of an organized salary compensation plan, program or system. In an organization that has defined jobs, pay bands are used to distinguish the level of compensation given to certain ranges of jobs to have fewer levels of pay ...
The 2022–2024 National Health Service (NHS) strikes were a series of concurrent industrial disputes in the publicly funded health services of the United Kingdom. The disputes related to the several staff groups on the Agenda for Change pay scale, as well as those on the junior doctor and consultant contracts.
The NHS Pension Scheme has 1.7 million members actively contributing, 713,000 deferred members and 1 million pensioners receiving benefits. [3] The benefits and conditions vary according to the type of worker and the dates of their service.
In 2019, the British Medical Association came to an agreement with NHS England to settle for a guaranteed 2% annual pay rise until 2023. [40] In 2023, resident doctors in England initiated their longest-ever strike, protesting against pay disparities within the National Health Service (NHS). The strike, which began on 13 July 2023, continued ...
Following the passage of the Old Age Pensions Act 1908 a pension of 5/— per week (£0.25, equivalent, using the Consumer Price Index, to £33 in 2023), [2] or 7/6 per week (£0.38, equivalent to £49/week in 2023) for a married couple, was payable to persons with an income below £21 per annum (equivalent to £2800 in 2023); the qualifying ...
[25] If an MP stands down during the course of a Parliament due to ill health, an ill health retirement grant is payable, calculated in the same way as the Resettlement Grant (as well as an immediate pension based on the service the MP would have accrued if they had continued to serve until age 65).
A major harmonisation of NHS pay structure, the Agenda for Change, was provisionally agreed in 2003 by unions representing nurses and other health professions in the NHS, unions representing NHS staff not covered by a Review Body (e.g. office staff), NHS employers and government before the Nursing and Other Health Professions Review Body ...