£380 minimum for NHS admin staff

The Administrative and Clerical Staffs Whitley Council negotiating body has agreed that from 1 April 2001 national salary scales increase by 3.7% or £380 whichever is the greater.

Emergency duty payments (standby, on-call and calls) also increase by 3.7%, as do London allowances. Bonus, overtime and similar enhancements will be calculated on the revised national salary scales but cash sum allowances such as secretarial and typing proficiency payments are not increased (any changes to these rates are matters for local agreement).

The new emergency duty rates are: £9.27 for each session of on-call or standby duty performed; and £11.11 for each call which lasts up to two hours. London allowances are £2,502 inner, £1,488 outer, £235 fringe, and £836 for "extra-territorially managed units".

Under the terms of the agreement employers are "reminded of the pay flexibilities provided by existing agreements and the opportunities these provide to take account of local circumstances in determining pay, including the discretion to make local pay supplements of up to 20% (30% in the former four Thames NHS regions) to address proven recruitment and retention difficulties that could be redressed by pay enhancement".

Grades 1-10 on the nhs administrative and clerical pay

spine pay increments

1 8,834-9,670 3

Clerical

(Grade 1 age 16 6,978, age 17 7,786) 2 9,670-11,037 4

Typist

(Grade 2 age 16 7,223, age 17 8,419 3 11,037-12,815 4 Secretarial, clerical supervisor 4 12,815-15,546 5 Administrative assistant 5 15,546-18,911 5

Administrative assistant

6 18,911-22,125 4

Administrative assistant

7 23,010-26,918 4

Assistant secretary

8 27,992-31,491 3

Assistant secretary

9 32,748-36,839 3 10 38,313-43,097 3

Legal adviser 34,798-46,720 6