§ Mrs. FyfeTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what model of performance-related pay he intends to introduce for consultants, medical academic staff and junior doctors.
§ Mr. Stewart[holding answer 11 July 1994]: The salary levels of hospital doctors are determined by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on the advice of the Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body. There are proposals that an 672W element of doctors' salaries be set on the basis of performance but these have yet to be discussed in the appropriate negotiating committees prior to being put to the review body.
It is not intended, should these proposals come into being, that a model of performance-related pay schemes be introduced in Scotland. It would be a matter for determination at local level as to how a national health service employing authority rewards its employees with regard to their performance and contribution to the objective of the provision of high-quality patient care.