NHS Pay Review Body remit letter: 2024 to 2025 pay round
Published 20 December 2023
Applies to England
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Stephen Boyle
Interim Chair, NHS Pay Review Body
Office of Manpower Economics
Level 3, Windsor House
50 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0TL
Dear Mr Boyle,
I would firstly like to offer my thanks to the NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB) for their work over the past year on the 2023 to 2024 report, and your patience with what has been an exceptional year for pay setting. The government appreciates the independent, expert advice and valuable contribution that the NHSPRB makes.
I write to you now to formally commence the 2024 to 2025 pay round and ask the NHSPRB for recommendations for the Agenda for Change workforce from April 2024. I am asking you to provide recommendations in line with your terms of reference and would welcome your report in May 2024.
It is vital that the pay review bodies consider the historic nature of the 2023 to 2024 awards and the government’s affordability position that will be set out further in written evidence.
As always, while your remit covers the whole of the United Kingdom, it is for each administration to make its own decisions on its approach to this year’s pay round and to communicate this to you directly.
As part of the deal negotiated with Agenda for Change unions, the government is committed to ensuring the pay setting process and the NHSPRB operates effectively. Work on this commitment is already underway via a series of engagement sub-groups with trade unions, employers and others.
I would like to thank you again for your and the NHSPRB’s invaluable contribution to the pay round and look forward to receiving your 2024 to 2025 report in due course.
Yours ever,
Victoria Atkins, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care