• You will receive a 6.2% pay uplift backdated to 1st April.  
• If/ when you progress to FY2, the new FY2 scale will be 7.1% higher.  
• You will receive an additional pay award in April 2027 when the DDRB reports. 

This means the actual pay rise you will see in your pocket if you compare your payslips last month to in 10 months’ time is: 6.9%. 

On top of this, you will get another uplift in April. 

• Without this offer, that pay rise would be 3.5%. 
• Because our pay awards are in April each year, but you rotate in August, you will spend one third of the time between April 2026 and April 2027 as an FY1 and two thirds of it as an FY2. That means you will cross 2 nodal points in the 10 months of this pay offer. This is why the percentage in bold is important and is specific to your grade if you progress this August.

• An additional 750 specialty training jobs will be added to the recruitment round this year (for August 2027 starts) if you wish to apply for training. 
• There will be an additional 1,500 (up to 1,750) next year should you take a year out of training after your F2. 
• There will be a further 1500 (up to 1,750) the year after. 
• If recruitment processes remain the same, the competition ratios for you and the addition of these jobs means the overall competition for specialty training is likely to return to a pre-2020 state. 
• You would be prioritised for the next stage of your training following the recent Medical Training (Prioritisation) Act.  

Your exams, portfolio and membership fees would be paid in the future. For example, if you wanted to be a haematologist, currently you would need to pay:  

• £510 for each sitting of MRCP Part 1  
• £512 for each sitting of MRCP Part 2  
• £742 for each sitting of PACES  
• £749 for Haematology Part 1   
• £ 576 for Haematology Part 2  

In addition, you would pay:  

• £440 for college membership fees  

In addition you would pay:  

• £534 for your core training portfolio   
• £712 for your higher training portfolio   

As part of this offer in this example, instead of costing up to £4,775 for you to train, it would cost you £0.  

Some of these costs are tax deductible. Membership and portfolio fees may be bundled together.

• You will receive a 7.1% pay uplift backdated to 1st April.  
• If/ when you progress to ST1 (or if you are taking a year out), the new ST1 scale will be 5.1% higher. 
• You will receive an additional pay award in April 2027 when the DDRB reports. 

This means the actual pay rise you will see in your pocket if you compare your payslips last month to in 10 months’ time is: 5.7%. 

On top of this, you will get another uplift in April. 

• Without this offer, that pay rise would be 3.5%. 
• Because our pay awards are April each year, but you rotate in August, you will spend one third of the time between April 2026 and April 2027 as an FY2 and two thirds of it as an ST1. That means you will cross 2 nodal points in the 10 months of this pay offer. This is why the percentage in bold is important and is specific to your grade if you progress this August.

• An additional 250 specialty training jobs will be added to the next (round 3) recruitment cycle (for February 2027 starts). These are all new national training numbers.  
• An additional 750 specialty training jobs will added to the recruitment round this year (for August 2027 starts) if you wish to apply for training.  
• There will be an additional 1500 (up to 1,750) next year.  
• There will be a further 1500 (up to 1,750) the year after.  
• If recruitment processes remain the same, the competition ratios for you and the addition of these jobs means the overall competition for specialty training is likely return to a pre-2020 state.  
• You would be prioritised for the next stage of your training following the recent Medical Training (Prioritisation) Act. 
• If you are taking a year out of training as an LED in August, you will be offered a new contract from September which will be a mirror of the 2016 terms to ensure that you receive future pay awards and future negotiated improvements to it. 
• If you are taking a year out of training as an LED, from August onwards you will also be offered a substantive (permanent) contract of employment unless for a specific reason (e.g. covering someone’s maternity leave).  

Your exams, portfolio and membership fees would be paid in the future. For example, if you wanted to be a haematologist, currently you would need to pay:  

• £510 for each sitting of MRCP Part 1  
• £512 for each sitting of MRCP Part 2  
• £742 for each sitting of PACES  
• £749 for Haematology Part 1   
• £ 576 for Haematology Part 2  
• In addition, you would pay:  
• £440 for college membership fees  

In addition you would pay:  

• £534 for your core training portfolio  
• £712 for your higher training portfolio  

As part of this offer in this example, instead of costing up to £4,775 for you to train, it would cost you £0.  

Some of these costs are tax deductible. Membership and portfolio fees may be bundled together.

• You will receive a 5.1% pay uplift backdated to 1st April 2026.  
• If/ when you progress to ST1, the new ST1 scale will be 5.1% higher.   
• You will also be able to have an appraisal from early next year to be able to progress to the ST2 point later in the year if you have proven you have met the competencies of an ST1. This would mean an 8.1% uplift to your pay compared to your current pay if you remained as an LED.  
• You will receive an additional pay award in April 2027 when the DDRB reports.

This means the actual pay rise you will see in your pocket if you compare your payslips last month to in 10 months’ time is: 5.1%. 

On top of this, you will get another uplift in April. 

• Without this offer, that pay rise would be 3.5%.  
    

An additional 250 specialty training jobs will be added to the next (round 3) recruitment cycle (for February 2027 starts).  

• An additional 750 specialty training jobs will added to the recruitment round this year (for August 2027 starts) if you wish to apply for training. 
• There will be an additional 1,500 (up to 1,750) next year. There will be a further 1,500 (up to 1,750) the year after. You can read more about these jobs, including the split of new training numbers here.
• If you are not entering training in August, you will be offered a new contract from September which will be a mirror of the 2016 terms to ensure that you receive future pay awards and future negotiated improvements to it. 
• If you are not entering training in August, from August onwards you will also be offered a substantive (permanent) contract of employment unless for a specific reason (e.g. covering someone’s maternity leave). 
• Your contract is not at risk of being terminated early to facilitate the creation of any new national training numbers.  

You can also claim for any exams you have sat since April 2026, or will sit going forward.  

For example, if you wanted to be a haematologist, currently you would need to pay:  

• £510 for each sitting of MRCP Part 1 
• £512 for each sitting of MRCP Part 2 
• £742 for each sitting of PACES 
• £749 for Haematology Part 1  
• £ 576 for Haematology Part 2 

From April 2027, your chosen portfolio and membership fees would be paid:  

In addition, you would pay:  

• £440 for college membership fees  

In addition you would pay:  

• £534 for your core training portfolio 
• £712 for your higher training portfolio  

As part of this offer in this example, instead of costing up to £4,775 for you to train, it would cost you £0.  

Membership and portfolio fees may be bundled together.

• You will receive a 5.1% pay uplift backdated to 1st April. 
• If/ when you progress to ST2, the new ST2 scale will be 5.1% higher. 
• You will receive both an additional pay uplift of 3% and an additional DDRB uplift in 10 months' time. 

This means the actual pay rise you will see in your pocket if you compare your payslips last month to in 10 months’ time is: 5.9%.

On top of this, you will get another uplift in April. 

• Without this offer, that pay rise would be 3.5%. 
• Because our pay awards are April each year, but you rotate in August, you will spend one third of the time between April 2026 and April 2027 as an ST1 and two thirds of it as an ST2. That means you will cross 2 nodal points in the 10 months of this pay offer.  This is why the percentage in bold is important and is specific to your grade if you progress this August.

• There will be an additional 1500 (up to 1,750) next year. 
• There will be a further 1500 (up to 1,750) the year after. 
• These 3000 additional jobs will be split between core and higher training, the exact split of specialty and geography to be decided by a distribution group which your BMA representatives would sit on. You can read more about these jobs, including the split of new training numbers here.
• You would be prioritised for the next stage of your training following the recent Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill. 

If you took time out of training prior to entering higher specialty training:  

• You will be offered a substantive (permanent) contract of employment unless for specific reason (e.g. covering someone’s maternity leave). 
• You will be offered a contract which will be a mirror of the 2016 terms to ensure that you receive future pay awards and future negotiated improvements to it.  

You can also claim for any exams you have sat since April 2026, or will sit going forward.  

For example, if you wanted to be a haematologist, currently you would need to pay:  

• £510 for each sitting of MRCP Part 1 
• £512 for each sitting of MRCP Part 2 
• £742 for each sitting of PACES 
• £749 for Haematology Part 1  
• £ 576 for Haematology Part 2  

From April 2027, your chosen portfolio and membership fees would be paid:  

In addition, you would pay:  

• £440 for college membership fees  

In addition you would pay:  

• £534 for your core training portfolio 
• £712 for your higher training portfolio  

As part of this offer in this example, instead of up to £4,775 costs to you to train, it would cost you £0.  

Some of these costs are tax deductible.  

• There will be an additional 1,500 (up to 1,750) next year.  
• There will be a further 1500 (up to 1,750) the year after.  
• These 3000 additional jobs will be split between core and higher training, the exact split of specialty and geography to be decided by a distribution group which your BMA representatives would sit on. You can read more about these jobs, including the split of new training numbers here.
• You would be prioritised for the next stage of your training following the recent Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill.  

If you took time out of training prior to entering higher specialty training:  

• You will be offered a substantive (permanent) contract of employment unless for a specific reason (e.g. covering someone’s maternity leave).  
• You will be offered a contract which will be a mirror of the 2016 terms to ensure that you receive future pay awards and future negotiated improvements to it.  

• You will receive a 3.5% pay uplift backdated to 1st April 2026.
  If/ when you progress to ST4, the new ST4 scale will be 4.5% higher.
• If remaining as an LED, you will also be able to have an appraisal from early next year to be able to progress to the ST4 point later in the year if you have proven you have met the competencies of an ST3. This would mean an 6.6% uplift to your pay compared to your current pay if you remained as an LED.
• You will receive an additional pay award in April 2027 when the DDRB reports.
• This means the actual pay rise you will see in your pocket if you compare your payslips last month to in 10 months’ time is: 3.5%.
• On top of this, you will get another uplift in April.
• Without this offer, that pay rise would be 3.5%.

• There will be an additional 1,500 (up to 1,750) next year.
• There will be a further 1,500 (up to 1,750) the year after.
  These 3,000 additional jobs will be split between core and higher training, the exact split of specialty and geography to be decided by a distribution group which your BMA representatives would sit on. You can read more about these jobs, including the split of new training numbers here.
• If you are not entering training in August, you will be offered a new contract from September which will be a mirror of the 2016 terms to ensure that you receive future pay awards and future negotiated improvements to it.
• If you are not entering training in August, from August onwards you will also be offered a substantive (permanent) contract of employment unless for a specific reason (e.g. covering someone’s maternity leave).
• Your contract is not at risk of being terminated early to facilitate the creation of any new national training numbers.

You can also claim for any exams you have sat since 1st April 2026, or will sit going forward.

For example, if you wanted to be a haematologist, currently you would need to pay:

• £749 for Haematology Part 1 
• £576 for Haematology Part 2

From April 2027, your portfolio and membership fees would be paid.
Some of these costs are tax deductible. Membership and portfolio fees may be bundled together.
 

You can read more about these jobs here.

• Your starting salary will be 6.2% higher when you start in August 2026 compared to an FY1.
• Without this offer, that pay rise would be 3.5%.
• Your starting salary will be £41,226, instead of £40,190.
• You will receive an additional pay award in April 2027 when the DDRB reports.

• There would be 1,000 extra jobs this year for current F1s/ F2s/ other resident doctors stuck in the bottleneck to apply to over the coming months.
• There will be an additional 1,500 (up to 1,750) next year should you wish to apply to training in your F2 year.
• There will be a further 1,500 (up to 1,750) the year after.
• If recruitment processes remain the same, the addition of these jobs means the overall competition for specialty training is likely to return to a pre-2020 state.
• You would be prioritised for core training following the recent Medical Training (Prioritisation) Act.
• You can read more about these jobs, including the split of new training numbers here.

Your exams, portfolio and membership fees would be paid in the future.

For example, if you wanted to be a haematologist, currently you would need to pay:

• £510 for each sitting of MRCP Part 1
• £512 for each sitting of MRCP Part 2
• £742 for each sitting of PACES
• £749 for Haematology Part 1 
• £576 for Haematology Part 2

In addition, you would pay:

• £440 for college membership fees

In addition, you would pay:

• £534 for your core training portfolio
• £712 for your higher training portfolio (if not paid in college membership)
  

As part of this offer in this example, instead of costing up to £4,775 for for you to train, it would cost you £0.

Some of these costs are tax deductible. Membership and portfolio fees may be bundled together.