Northern Ireland GPs are denied DDRB uplift
Doctors in Northern Ireland have been told that they will not receive the 6% pay rise for 2024-25 recommended by the Doctors’ and Dentists’ Pay Review Body (DDRB), which has already been applied in the rest of the UK. Alan Stout, the BMA’s Northern Ireland council chair, said, “The scale of anger and outrage I have been hearing over the course of the last week is unprecedented. Doctors here are totally disillusioned with the Department of Health and its attitude towards doctors’ pay. [It seems] to believe that by paying us less than counterparts in the rest of the UK, it will somehow motivate us to work harder to address the chaos our health system is in.”
