Thread by @Vish_Sharm

1/ IMPORTANT
@BMA_Consultants have launched a survey for consultants (inc. non-members) in England/NI to find out what you think of the Government’s pay award, how it has impacted your morale and what YOU and @TheBMA should do about it. Closes 16/08/21

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2/ Need to know your views - consultants have had the worst pay erosion of any group - take home pay for average consultant has fallen ~28.6% in real terms since 2008/9. A pay award of 3% is still an effective paycut - June's RPI 3.9%, CPI predicted to be ~4% by end of the year

3/ The 3% uplift does not apply to CEAs which are frozen again. Therefore, in effect this is an EVEN lower pay award representing 2.8% of total consultant paybill. Whatever you think of CEAs -wrong to slash their value after the heroic efforts of consultants in the last year.

4/ The government excluded @BMA_JuniorDocs , @BMA_GP and SAS from the remit of the ‘independent’ @PayReviewBodies. Despite this the DDRB clearly stated that these groups deserved equal recognition for their work and @DHSCgovuk should 'consider this'….

5/ @DHSCgovuk ignored this whilst claiming to have followed DDRB's recommendations in full.
See excellent tweet from @DrSarahHal here

https://twitter.com/DrSarahHal/status/1417912347214204931?s=20

6/ Scandalous but then again a truly independent @PayReviewBodies would have not confined itself to the remit set by government and simply made a recommendation to increase the pay of those on multi-year deals - a recommendation that could not be ignored

7/ What about other groups - 3% is wholly inadequate for our nursing, managerial and colleagues in support services. Our #FairnessForTheFrontline campaign demands fair treatment for ALL NHS staff, especially after the last 16 months. #enoughisenough

8/ We are appalled by the pay freezes for other public sector workers, despite many of these undertaking critical work during the pandemic. They deserve better treatment #levelupnotdown

9/ They pay freeze demonstrates the mockery of the so called independent @PayReviewBodies. They were told by government "it is right to temporarily pause pay awards for the majority of the public sector.” And guess what they complied...

10/ This is exactly what pay review bodies covering the NHS did for 9 years with pay freezes and caps of 1% despite inflation running at ~3.1%/year. This is why @BMA_Consultants pay fell by nearly 30% in real terms.

11/ Essentially after the financial crash in 2008, the government 'bailed out the banks' and the public sector was clobbered. The private sector had largely recovered before the pandemic, @theBMA members were still significantly behind.

12/ Of course the private sector needs to be supported but the public sector cannot get clobbered again to pay for the pandemic. Please do complete the survey - your views are essential to guide what happens next.

13/ Access the survey here – it is open to all consultants in England and NI including non-BMA members. Only valid entries from consultants will be included in the final results.

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