Negotiating for the profession

Key negotiating issues

BMA to start talks on juniors' contract

The Government has published the NHS Employers' scoping report on junior doctors' contracts and announced they would seek to negotiate a new contract based on the report’s recommendations.

Consultant contract and award schemes

A new set of proposals have been set out with wide-ranging recommendations on the future of award schemes as well as other changes to consultants' contracts and pay structures.

Local and regional pay, terms and conditions

We are strongly defending the nationally agreed contracts for doctors and are resisting local contract variations.

Education and training

New Local Education and Training Boards are set to manage juniors' training under the Liberating the NHS: Developing the Healthcare Workforce reforms. The Commons health select committee backed our call for greater clarity about how the new bodies (Health Education England, LETBs, employers and the Centre for Workforce Intelligence) will work together.

Workforce

The UK medical workforce is facing unprecedented change, from the implications of imposed Government efficiency savings, to high levels of competition at each stage of medical training.

Pay negotiations

As the freeze on doctors' pay imposed by NHS Employers continues, The BMA has submitted evidence to the Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body calling for all doctors to be treated equally.

Whistleblowing

Doctors' responsibility to report concerns about the work of those around them was the focus of a health select committee report in early 2012. Giving evidence to MPs, we said there was a role for 'compromise agreements' in doctors' contracts but they should not prevent whistleblowing.