Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body (DDRB) report 2007
13 March 2007
The Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists Remuneration (DDRB) has made recommendations for increases in doctors' basic pay scales in 2007/08 of £650 for junior doctors and £1,000 for most other salaried doctors. Independent contractor GPs were awarded no increase on this occasion.
These increases represent between 1.04% and 3.13% of basic pay. The government has announced that it will not implement in full those increases in excess of 1.5%.
Doctors for whom the flat rate increases represent more than 1.5% will receive 1.5% with effect from 1 April 2007 and the balance from 1 November 2007. This will affect all but a few junior doctors, all staff grade doctors and those associate specialists not in receipt of two or more discretionary points.
- Press release: BMA Scotland welcomes Minister's plans to implement pay awards in full (issued Tuesday 13 March 2007)
- Press release: A black day for general practice (issued Monday 5 March 2007)
- Press release: BMA slams new settlement as a pay cut for all doctors (issued Thursday 1 March 2007)
- The Review Body report may be downloaded from the office of manpower economics website.
- Download the new pay scales as a spreadsheet.
- Letter to GP members and LMCs, 2 March 2007
- General Practitioners committee letter to members, 16 March 2007
- Login for Staff and Associate Specialists committee letter to members, March 2007
- BMANews story, 2 March 2007 'How DDRB adds up for hospital doctors'.
Background information
- The BMA's memorandum of evidence to the Review Body, submitted in October 2006
Download the new pay scales as a spreadsheet (41k)