Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 44654

Accident and Emergency Departments: Pay

Tabled: 7 April 2025
Answered: 22 April 2025

Question

Lisa Smart

Liberal DemocratHazel Grove

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of changes in the level of staff overtime pay rates in emergency departments on (a) the quality of patient care and (b) the ret

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Department has not made this specific assessment. Where national rates for overtime are applicable in England, these are set out in the national terms and conditions, and no recent changes have been made to these provisions, nor are there planned to b...

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