Consultation Responses

A separate pay scale for nursing would be divisive and unworkable, say AHPF member organisations (March 2024)

Professional bodies and trade unions across the AHP sector responded to the recent consultation on a separate pay scale for nursing with a resounding ‘no.’ AHP bodies said the proposal was deeply unhelpful and would go against the NHSE Workforce Plan objecgive of team cohesion. It would:

Lead to bad feeling and division across professions

Damage staff morale

Be impractical

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) launched the consultation as part of a commitment to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) during pay negotiations. Currently, pay for NHS staff, aside from doctors and dentists, is standardised and aligned through the Agenda for Change system.

AHPF argues that the proposal goes against the ethos of Agenda for Change, which was implemented to ensure that all non-medical staff receive equal pay for work of equal value and that the contribution of all receives proper recognition. The current recruitment and retention crisis in the NHS is not limited to nurses, it applies equally to dieticians, radiographers, physiotherapists, podiatrists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and other professions who have expressed their opposition. The introduction of a stand-alone pay system for nurses would be divisive and unfair and inevitably result in a surge in equal pay cases.

AHPF Response to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Proposals on Regulation of Advanced Practice

The AHPF response to the NMC proposals is below:

090424_AHPF_NMC Proposals on Regulation of Advanced Practice

The AHPF has responded to the following consultations:

AHPF contribution to Health Select Committee Inquiry on STPs 19 Jan 18.pdf

AHPF response to HCPC Consultation on threshold level for paramedics.pdf

The HCPC have agreed the recommendations for paramedic threshold entry level and will be implementing them from Sept 2021.

AHPF response to Promoting professionalism consultation Final.pdf

AHPF submission to Treasury Select Committee Inquiry into Student Loans Dec 17.pdf

AHPF response to HEE draft workforce strategy March 2018.pdf

AHPF contribution to care and support reform Green Paper.pdf

AHPF response to the HCPC consultation on fees