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Senior staff and management contracts

Policy information about contracts and pay for senior NHS managers, including NHS chief executives and directors. As with other NHS staff groups, the system of pay and contract for chief executives and directors is being modernised

Pay framework for very senior managers in strategic and special health authorities, primary care trusts and ambulance trusts

17 June 2008: Very Senior Managers' Pay Framework updated to reflect 2008/09 rates

Annual uplift letters

For 2008-09

17 June 2008: David Nicholson, the NHS Chief Executive, has today written to chairs and chief executives of NHS organisations to inform them of increases to remuneration for chairs and non-executive directors; increases in pay for very senior managers; and the approval process for awards to those covered by the Very Senior Managers' Pay Framework

For 2007-2008

25 April 2007: Lord Hunt, Minister of State for Quality, has today written to chairs and chief executives of NHS organisations to inform them of increases to remuneration for chairs and non-executive directors; and increases to pay for very senior managers.

For 2006-2007

30 March 2006: Lord Warner, Minister of State for NHS Reform, has today written to chairs and chief executives of NHS organisations to inform them of increases to remuneration for chairs and non-executive directors; and increases to pay for very senior managers. The letter also provides an update on proposals for a new pay framework for very senior managers.

For 2005-2006

9 May 2005: We have already communicated to the NHS pay increases of 3.225% for other groups of staff, and in the interests of consistency, increases in the overall pay bill for seniormanagers should also be no more than 3.225% for the same period.

For 2004-2005

23 July 2004: We have already communicated to the NHS pay increases of 3.225% for other groupsof staff, and in the interests of consistency, increases in the overall pay bill for seniormanagers should also be no more than 3.225% for the same period.

For 2003-2004

14 August 2003: We are asking NHS employing organisations to take all practical steps to ensure that average pay rises for other senior managers, including (except in the case of three-star Trusts) any performance related pay, do not exceed 3.225% of current pay bill except where changes in job weight justify higher increases. Within this overall envelope, there is scope to vary individual pay rises according to performance.

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