Notices by the General Board

Stipends of the holders of clinical academic offices and payment for clinical responsibility

Agreement has now been reached on the salary arrangements for clinical academic staff with effect from 1 April 2014. The Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) translates the NHS salary for hospital doctors and dentists determined by the government after considering advice from the Doctors and Dentists Review Body. Following a recent meeting of the Board of UCEA, the Clinical Academic Staff Salaries Committee has agreed to translate the proposal of the Secretary of State into the salaries of clinical academic staff. There will be no increase in salaries with the exception of those clinical academics who have reached the top of the scale, who will receive a non-consolidated payment of 1% with effect from 1 April 2014 and ending 31 March 2015.

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 a non-consolidated non-pensionable payment of 1% of basic salary for those clinical academics on the top point of the scale on 31 March 2014, payable in monthly instalments from 1 April 2014 until 31 March 2015.

The figures currently shown in Schedule II to the regulations for Stipends (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 682) remain unchanged, with effect from 1 April 2014, and are as follows:

For Clinical Lecturers on the equivalent of the NHS Specialist Registrar scales (pre-2009):
Clinical Lecturer	£31,301 by ten increments to £54,199
For Clinical Lecturers on the equivalent of the NHS Specialist Registrar scales (post-2009) scales:
Clinical Lecturer	£31,838 by ten increments to £56,312

The offices of Associate Dean in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine, and Director and Assistant Director of Studies in General Practice are part-time and stipends are determined by local agreement, with reference to the appropriate full-time Consultant salary.

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:

New (2003) Consultant Contract:

If the integrated job plan and the honorary Consultant contract agreed with the NHS covers not less than ten Programmed Activities a week, the annual pensionable payment for clinical responsibility will amount to the difference between the officer’s prime stipend and her or his notional place on the NHS full-time Consultant salary scale.

That scale is: With effect from 1 April 2014:

£75,249, £77,605, £79,961, £82,318, £84,667, £90,263, £95,860, £101,451.

Pre-2003 Consultant Contract:

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 her or his notional place on the NHS full-time Consultant salary scale.

That scale is: With effect from 1 April 2014:

£62,478, £66,948, £71,419, £75,889, £80,988.

Judge Institute of Management (Judge Business School): Advisory Board

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 628)

With effect from 1 October 2014

The General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Business and Management, have approved a change to the remit of the Judge Business School Advisory Board, to enable it to take a more strategic role. Regulation 2 of the regulations for the Judge Institute of Management (Judge Business School) has therefore been amended so as to read:

2. There shall be an advisory board, which shall contain at least four persons who are not members of the Regent House and who have experience of business administration. It shall be the duty of the advisory board to advise the Director and the Faculty Board on policy for the future development of the Judge Business School in the University.