AQW 3385/17-22 Written question to the Minister of Health
To ask the Minister of Health why there is a disparity in salary between dental core trainees in Northern Ireland and those in the rest of the UK.
Asked by Paula Bradshaw MLA on 9 March 2020
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 9 March 2020
- Answer due by
- 25 March 2020
- Answered
- 20 March 202011 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
Further to my answer to AQW 1112/17-22, pay for medical and dental post-graduate trainees is a devolved matter.
The Department of Health (England) imposed a new contract for hospital trainees in England in 2016. The English contract reduced the number of pay points on the medical and dental trainee payscales, and in so doing revalued those points. Trainees in Northern Ireland have remained on the 2002 contract and corresponding pay framework. Any change to the NI medical contract would be a matter for negotiation between the Department and the BMA.