Consultant Contract

Latest News

Second National Survey of Non-Training Grade Doctors in NHS Scotland
15 December 2006 | Consultant Contract
The survey covers all doctors - (GPs and Consultants) and reports on changes in job satisfaction, work commitments and attitudes to workload following contractual reform. Second National Survey of Non-Training Grade Doctors in NHS Scotland
ISD(M)53 - New Consultant Contract now available
23 October 2006 | Key Documents
ISD (M)53 - New Consultant Contract for NHS Consultants with signed off job plan now available

Pay Modernisation Health Board Plans now available
15 August 2006 | Pay Modernisation Boards
HDL (2005) 51 set out the requirements for the NHS Boards in Scotland to undertake Pay Modernisation Plans to demonstrate how they are using the new contracts (Consultant Contract, GMS and Agenda for Change) to support corporate priorities and deliver targets.

Health Board Pay Modernisation plans are available from the health board section.

For details of previous new items please visit the News Archive.

Key Documents

For a full list of all Consultant Contract documents please go to the Key Documents Section.

About

The new Consultant Contract is available to all consultants from 1 April 2004. It offers the NHS a more effective system of planning and timetabling consultants’ duties for the NHS. For consultants it gives greater financial recognition as well as greater transparency about the commitments expected of them. For patients this means less tired doctors and services which reflects the needs of patients.

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Contact

For more information about the Contract please visit our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page . If you have an enquiry about the Terms and Conditions of service you can email your query to Kevin Matheson at the Scottish Executive Health Department.