Reporter 12/5/99: Stipends of the holders of clinical academic offices and payments for clinical responsibility: Notice

Stipends of the holders of clinical academic offices and payments for clinical responsibility: Notice

Agreement has now been reached on increases in clinical salaries for 1999. Following a recent meeting of the Board of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association, the Clinical Academic Staff Salaries Committee have agreed to translate the recent award of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration into the salaries of clinical academic staff. This gives an increase of 3.5 per cent from 1 April 1999 for all staff, except those on step 5 of the University's Consultant scale, which has been raised by a further £500 above the 3.5 per cent, reflecting the increase in the maximum of the NHS scale for Consultants.

In accordance with the principle that the remuneration of clinical academic staff in Cambridge should be broadly comparable with that of equivalent staff in other UK medical schools, the General Board have agreed to approve revised stipends and scales of stipends for clinical appointments in Cambridge. The figures currently shown in Schedule IV to the regulations for stipends (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 641) are replaced, with effect from 1 April 1999, by the following figures:

Clinical Lecturer	£23,300 by ten increments to £40,285
Associate Dean in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine¹	£22,400
Clinical Dean in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine¹	£28,000
Regional Postgraduate Dean in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine	£61,605
Directors and Assistant Directors of Studies in General Practice²	£5,600

The Board have also approved the following basis for calculating rates of payment for clinical responsibility for University officers with honorary NHS contracts as Consultants:

If the honorary Consultant contract agreed with the NHS covers not less than six NHS sessions a week, the annual pensionable payment for clinical responsibility will amount to the difference between the officer's prime stipend and his or her notional place on the NHS full-time Consultant salary scale. That scale is, with effect from 1 April 1999, £47,345, £50,785, £54,225, £57,665, £61,605.

¹ Part-time.

² Part-time. The stipend shown is for one clinical session

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