On 27 May, NHS Employers published the terms of the contractual agreement, as obtained by the government, NHS Employers and the BMA. This was agreed by the government, NHS employers and the BMA, subject to support for young BMA doctors in a referendum. Negotiations with NHS Employers and the Department of Health and Social Care to improve the 2016 contract for interns in England are now over. The government wants to modernize the junior doctor contract to make it fairer for doctors and safer for patients. The following information includes both the 2016 contract for physicians and dentists in training and archived information on previous 2002 medical and dental terms, which applied to physicians and dentists in training. As part of the agreement, the 39,000 doctors – all in training – will receive the following information: the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Junior Doctors Committee (JDC) have held regular meetings with NHS employers to discuss and resolve issues identified by BMA members with regard to the new contract. At the end of May 2019, negotiations were concluded with a view to improving the internal contract in 2016. On 30 November 2015, the Secretary of State delivered a speech to Parliament in which he stated that an agreement had been reached to continue negotiations and avoid previously planned strike action. But the Association of Doctors in the UK, which works to improve the working lives of interns, criticised the new contract.
This is “a bad deal for hard-working young doctors, with their modest financial gains, largely wiped out by inflation, a long implementation schedule and contractual loopholes,” he said. In the old contract, a standard rate was paid to interns for positions where hours fell from Monday to Friday between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. If an FY1 doctor worked these standard hours, he would have earned a base salary of £22,862. This basic salary would increase if the doctor advanced thanks to his training and his time increased. You can find a number of useful documents and resources to help employers implement the contract for doctors in training on the 2018 intern contract upgrade website. Matt Hancock, Minister of Health and Social Care, said: “I am pleased that with this pioneering agreement we have successfully ended the dispute over interns. Improved working conditions and an 8.2% pay increase over four years will give current doctors and students the support they fully deserve. An independent review of the experience of young doctors with their training and support during work for the NHS and the study of the long-standing moralisation problem was also announced. . . .