DHSC SSRB remit letter: 2022 pay round
Published 30 November 2021
Applies to England
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Dr Martin Read CBE
Chair, Senior Salaries Review Body
Office of Manpower Economics
Level 3, Windsor House
50 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0TL
Dear Dr Read,
I should firstly like to offer my thanks for the Senior Salaries Review Body’s (SSRB) valuable work during the last pay round and for the observations on levels of pay for senior managers in the health and care sector, made within your 2021 report.
I write to you now to invite you to build upon these observations and provide a pay recommendation for very senior managers (VSMs) in the NHS, and executive and senior managers in the Department for Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) arm’s length bodies (ALBs), for 2022 to 2023.
The government must balance the need to ensure fair pay for public sector workers while protecting funding for frontline services and ensuring affordability for taxpayers. We must ensure that the affordability of a pay award is taken into consideration to ensure that the NHS and DHSC’s ALBs are able to recruit, retain and motivate its senior workforce, as well as deliver on other key priorities, including tackling elective recovery.
Independent consultants at NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI) are putting together proposals for the revised VSM pay framework – please review their proposals, giving particular consideration to the pay of medical directors and the alignment of the new integrated care board very senior managers (VSMs) within the framework.
The evidence that my department and NHS England and Improvement will provide in the coming months, will support you in your consideration of all these factors.
We would welcome your reports in May 2022, subject to ongoing conversations with the Office of Manpower Economics.
Yours ever,
Sajid Javid Secretary of State for Health and Social Care