Pay offer 2007/08 - Agenda for Change groups

UNISON, GMB members and the RCN Council have voted to accept the revised pay offer to settle the 2007 pay negotiations for NHS staff. The offer now needs to be formally accepted by the staff council on behalf of all the unions before NHS Employers can issue pay circulars.

This follows the 2 August 2007 announcement that, following intense discussions in recent weeks, an additional offer had been made to the NHS trade unions on this year's pay uplift.

The revised offer, affecting around 1 million staff on Agenda for Change pay bands, as well as staff covered by the Pay Negotiating Council, was made formally in a letter to the trade union members of the Staff Council.

The original offer for this financial year was for a 2.5 per cent staged pay increase with 1.5 per cent payable from 1 April 2007 and the balance from 1 November.

The offer is as follows:

• £400 for staff on pay points 1-7 with 1.5 per cent payable from 1 April 2007and the remainder from 1 November 2007
• 2.5 per cent + £38 for staff on pay points 8-18 with 1.5 per cent from 1 April 2007 and the remainder from 1 November 2007
• 2.5 per cent with 1.5 per cent payable from 1 April 2007 and with the balance from 1 November 2007 for all other staff
• Funding to the equivalent of £25 per member of staff who is not required to have clinical professional registration to practice is made available by the Department of Health in 2007/08 to trusts to support training projects for that group of staff. Projects to be agreed locally in partnership with applications for funding signed off by the trust chief executive and staff side chair
• A payment of £38 a year to Agenda for Change clinical staff in bands 5-8(A) inclusive who are in professions where registration is a mandatory requirement of practice to support the payment of fees for their clinical registration from 2007 to 2010 inclusive, by when it will have been jointly reviewed
• A statement (set out in the page below) about the issues that will be discussed in multi-year pay deal talks. The statement does not pre-commit any party to agree a multi-year pay deal or to pre-agree any specific element. It does not exclude discussion of other issues but it does indicate that these issues will be addressed in good faith.