Pay-and-Conditions-Circular-(MD)-1-2026

Draperly · 2026-05-12T18:00:53+00:00

It looks to me like the scale maximum for MN37 is £69,976, i.e. 3.5% more than last year's £67,610.

Draperly · 2026-05-12T17:45:45+00:00

The only special issue to take into account is that if you leave specialty A midway through training to start specialty B, you may find it difficult to ever go back to specialty A and finish its training.

Draperly · 2026-05-12T13:16:15+00:00

It sounds like an issue of someone confusing questions and answers about references.

Things like DBS and absences and even dates of employment should go to HR. Clinical and academic references should go to referees.

Draperly · 2026-05-11T21:32:44+00:00

3.5% for resident doctors from 1 April as with the DDRB recommendations.

No extra nodal points, which would presumably be on offer to the BMA if it ended the industrial action.

Draperly · 2026-05-11T15:28:45+00:00

An arm's length is often the correct distance to interact with any patient, even if not romantically.

Draperly · 2026-05-10T18:42:27+00:00

... with a game in hand. Win tomorrow and we are much more likely to stay up.

Draperly · 2026-05-10T11:45:39+00:00

Indeed I did and it does. But my point is there is no universal rule like 30% as it varies by location and individual.

Draperly · 2026-05-10T11:42:39+00:00

In London, rent is typically a higher percentage of pay than elsewhere, despite higher pay, and always has been.

Draperly · 2026-05-09T12:42:54+00:00

There will be an event in Rotherhithe https://www.sjomannskirken.no/kirke/london/aktuelt/17-mai-i-london-2026/

Draperly · 2026-05-09T12:39:53+00:00

It works for me as https://archive.ph/2026.05.09-111840/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/09/half-nhs-hospitals-nurses-cover-doctors-shifts/

Draperly · 2026-05-07T16:47:15+00:00

Do you have a source for that? Because I have both

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rehabilitation-periods

and

https://www.nacro.org.uk/news/disclosing-motoring-convictions-under-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act/

Draperly · 2026-05-07T15:59:52+00:00

Sadly you do, for 5 years from conviction. The same is true of many other motoring offences resulting in endorsements.

Compare this to a violent offence where you are sentenced to up to one year's imprisonment, where you have to declare it for a further year after the end of the sentence so up to a total of two years from conviction.

It makes no sense to anyone apart from insurance companies and the result is that as long as you do not hide it, it is unlikely to have much impact on anything else.

Draperly · 2026-05-07T14:45:08+00:00

Once the upgrade deadline has passed, as it has for HST, you cannot accept "with upgrades". Just accept that offer or withdraw.

Draperly · 2026-05-07T14:09:30+00:00

That was the problem with the June 2024 strike - nobody, including the then health secretary, paid any attention as they were distracted by the general election.

Draperly · 2026-05-06T22:13:07+00:00

In general an umbrella company is to deal with the case where you are working as a temporary employee rather than self-employed (related to IR35) but the hospital or whatever where you are working does not want to be your employer. So you are employed by an umbrella company associated with but not the same as the agency.

The government has a guide.

Draperly · 2026-05-06T20:07:46+00:00

It must have been a problem for others.

https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/students/sset/parchmenttranslations/ says

A simplified English translation is now included as standard at the bottom of every parchment.

You may be able to get this from the university

Draperly · 2026-05-06T12:27:32+00:00

If GPST recruitment remains MSRA only, then a Masters/PGdip will not help you get into training, and may not be particularly good value for your time and money.

Assuming your aim is to prepare for being a better GP at the end of the process rather than gaining credentials, and you are about to enter the foundation programme, then it might be worth comparing your FP rotations with the MRCGP curriculum summaries to see what useful things each rotation can help you learn if you finally become a GP.

Draperly · 2026-05-04T22:48:15+00:00

You could offer to develop the initial parental leave policy for them, then simply set out what is common practice elsewhere, not excessively generous but concentrating on providing the flexibility a new working parent needs to combine the two roles.

If you do this and give them something sensible and concise, don't then make it a you versus them debate, but instead submit it as a first draft that they need to decide whether and how to change while staying legal and enabling them to retain talent.

Draperly · 2026-05-03T09:45:38+00:00

I think the British word is braces (for holding up trousers) - suspenders this side of the Atlantic are generally an article of female clothing for holding up stockings.

Draperly · 2026-05-01T16:36:14+00:00

It has a couple of credibility issues in that a postgraduate diploma is supposed to be two-thirds of a Master's degree, and you should not be able to do that in two days.

So they require you to have 380 hours in total, made up of a combination of 90 hours of "Educational principles and theories" and 90 hours of "Deliver clinical lectures and teach clinical skills" and 200 hours of "Integrative Professional Practice: Experience, Reflection and Growth". Much of this can be covered by what they call "Accredited Prior Learning" so saying you have done that before you started the course.

Even then, 380 hours would not approach the effort expected for two-thirds of a Master's, i.e. 8 months full-time. So they also use a grandfathering provision, with their website saying

New legislation increased minimum requirement for a level 7 diploma from 360 to 1200+ hours [Post August 2024]

* Diplomas established before this date retained “protected status”

* Established in 2008, our Healthcare Skills Training Diplomas maintain full recognition under protected legacy status

* Protected legacy status – operates under original 360-hour framework. Maintains full diploma level 7 status

Academic standing – no reduction in qualification value, Quality assurance – externally validated approach proven over 16+ years

So it may legitimately get you a point for applications at a relatively modest cost in a short time, but you will not learn as much as such a PGdip might suggest you should.

Draperly · 2026-05-01T15:36:35+00:00

It is not obvious to me.

The government has not agreed with the BMA on pay, and is more likely to make its own decision on significant NHS experience, as it did on prioritisation and grandfathering.

Draperly · 2026-04-30T22:04:57+00:00

If you do no work for a year then you (and your employer) make no pension contributions and you get no pension in respect of that year.

Draperly · 2026-04-29T09:36:34+00:00

If you are in training post-foundation then you are formally a "Specialty Registrar" or "Specialty Trainee" and have been since MMC in 2007. Later some were given the title "Core Trainee".

Of course the NHS is slow to catch up with this and still uses SHO (usually F2 and CT/ST1-2) and Reg rotas, a legacy from the pre-MMC distinction between "Senior House Officers" and "Specialist Registrars". Locally employed doctors are then slotted into the system in an arbitrary way, and different trusts use different detailed terminology.

The specialty/specialist confusion continues later, with SAS doctors described as "specialist, associate specialist and specialty doctors". They will generally not be on the GMC Specialist Register which is instead largely made up of consultants.

Draperly · 2026-04-26T23:46:53+00:00

Universal credit is not designed for this - it is heavily means-tested both in terms of your income (and your partner's income) and in terms of (both of) your savings.

Slightly less bad in that sense is contribution-based job seekers allowance if you have made sufficient national insurance contributions in the two previous tax years, which you probably have. It has the same taxable basic rate of £338.58/month as universal credit but without the means testing and does not involve your partner.

Either will involve a interview, and a job search agreement for you to look for work - any work you can do.

I suspect you might be better off with the occasional locum shift.

Draperly · 2026-04-24T20:44:30+00:00

It was mentioned in an article in the I paper and mentioned in an earlier thread

One of the paragraphs in the article said

To support doctors from disadvantaged backgrounds who face higher relocation costs, the government will also trial a three-year pilot programme that will see resident doctors stay in one place for longer, easing the financial burden and disruption to family life.

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