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Consultation on the new proposed pay structure for civilian medical practitioners

July 2008
Pay proposals for a competency based career structure for civilian medical practitioners

You will remember that in January 2008 the MoD Defence Medical Services Department (DSMD) sent the BMA Armed Forces Committee their revised proposals for a competency based career structure for CMPs.

This is a consultation document on which we are seeking the views of all CMPs.

We understand that this offer of a new basic salary structure along with a 3% supplementary skills allowance (for all accredited CMPs) and associate trainers’ pay is a first step in the development of a whole new career package, outlined in the MoD’s January 2008 proposal.

We believe the MoD has made this offer at this stage in acknowledgement of the need for an urgent uplift in pay for CMPs in the hope that it will help to address recruitment, retention and morale issues that cannot wait until we have negotiated and developed an overall new contract package.

The current CMP pay scale is:
0 years - £62,242
6 years - £66,744
13 years - £70,060
19 years - £73,258.

The across the board pay rises contained in the new pay scale range from 3.0 to 10.3% with an average rise of 6.7%. The pay offer, if accepted, will be backdated from 1 April 2008 with effect before the end of 2008. You can see a full list of percentage pay rises by using the link on the right.

The new package should include rewards for enhanced clinical services and management responsibilities as well as new, improved and more explicit arrangements for out-of-hours work, on-call, overtime and study leave. We aim, also to discuss other contractual aspects such as flexible and part-time working. We will be sending these proposals out for consultation and hope to begin negotiations on the new package in August after we have heard back from CMPs.

We would like CMPs views on this pay offer and will be sending this information out in hard copy. We would be grateful if you could send us your views. More information about how to submit your feedback can be found in the hard copy of the letter.

You will understand the importance of these proposals and our need to contact you about them. For this reason I would be grateful if you could pass this information on to any CMP colleagues and ask them to ensure that their details are up to date on our database. You can make sure that your details are accurate and up to date by emailing the committee secretariat on
info.armedforces@bma.org.uk with your current address, workplace and grade.

Thank you for taking the time to consider these proposals.


Dr Brendan McKeating
Chairman
Armed Forces Committee

Narendra Dave
CMP Representative
Armed Forces Committee