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NHS to review gender pay gap
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a review into doctors’ pay in an attempt to eliminate the existing gender pay gap in the industry.
Reports in April revealed that male doctors are paid on average £10,000 more than female doctors, while across the whole NHS it is reported that women are paid 23 per cent less than men, although far more women are employed in the health sector.
Hunt, who has said it was unacceptable that staff still faced gender inequality, announced that Professor Jane Dacre, president of the Royal College of Physicians, will lead the independent review into gender pay inequality. The review will look at a number of issues which can stop a woman progressing in her career, including: working patterns and their impact on those in the medical profession; the impact of motherhood on careers and progression; care arrangements and their affordability, and issues around being a carer; access to flexible working; shared parental leave; the predominance of men in senior roles; and the impact of rewards payments.
Speaking on Radio 4's Today programme, Dacre commented that the review would look to ‘sort out a level of inequality that's been going on for many years’ and will also aim to fix problem that more than 50 per cent of women make up medical school entrants.
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