Notice-board: Hospital Pharmacy salaries

Hospital staff set to get 3.6 per cent (5/12 January 2002)
(The Pharmaceutical Journal, Vol 268 No 7180 p4)

Hospital pharmacists can expect pay rises well ahead of inflation this year.

New hospital pharmacy salaries (17 March 2001)
(The Pharmaceutical Journal, Vol 266 No 7139 pp342-343)

The new salary scales for hospital pharmacists payable from April 1, 2000, and April 1, 2001, are given below. Preregistration trainees will be paid at an annual rate of £10,741 (2000) and £11,138 (2001). London allowances are increased to £2,413and £2,502 (inner London), £1,435 and £1,488 (outer London), £806 and £836 (extra-territorially managed) and £227 and £235 (fringe). Emergency duty allowances remain at £2,054 for 2000, rising to £2,130 for 2001.

2000 2001 Grade Point £ £ 00 16,892 17,517 A   01 17,952 18,616 A   02 19,011 19,714 A B 03 20,071 20,814   B 04 21,131 21,913   B 05 21,398 22,190 C B+ 06 22,420 23,250 C   07 23,442 24,309 C   08 24,463 25,368 C   03 25,485 26,428 C   10 26,507 27,488 C   11 26,764 27,754 C+ D 12 27,758 28,785 C++ D 13 28,751 29,815   D 14 29,745 30,846   D 15 30,153 31,269 E D+ 16 31,128 32,280 E D++ 17 32,102 33,290 E   18 33,076 34,300 E   19 34,052 35,312 E+ F 20 35,025 36,321 E++ F 21 36,001 37,333 E+++ F 22 36,975 38,343   F 23 37,950 39,354 G F+ 24 38,924 40,364 G F++ 25 39,899 41,375 G F+++ 26 40,874 42,386 G   27 41,848 43,396 G+ H 28 42,822 44,406 G++ H 29 43,797 45,417 G+++ H 30 44,771 46,428   H+ 31 45,746 47,439   H++ 32 46,721 48,450   H+++

Grade   Plus signs indicate discretionary points only A a post with basic duties and guidance from a senior colleague B a post with basic duties not needing guidance C a post which directs the work of others or provides a specialist service D a post with management responsibility for an area of work, including forward planning and development, or providing a specialist service with comparable responsibility E a post carrying responsibility for managing a department or equivalent, with greater responsibility for forward planning and development or an equivalent specialist service F a post with overall responsibility for a health authority pharmaceutical service, a very large department or providing a high level of professional expertise G a post equivalent to responsibility for a very large service to one or more health authorities or requiring exceptional expertise H a post of exceptional responsibility or demanding very exceptional expertise (see PJ, November 19, 1988, p652)

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