NHS England revealed its gender pay gap remained at 11% in 2023/24, according to its diversity pay gap reporting.
It declared the gender pay gap, which is the difference between average hourly rates paid to women versus men across its 15,758 staff, was 11.41% in 2023/24, compared with 11.84% in 2022/23.
The reporting also looked at the ethnicity pay gap, comparing how much white employees earn compared to BME employees in the NHS. This had decreased from 9.13% in 2022/23, to 5.09% in 2023/24, with white employees earning more than BME staff.
In 2022, the Government said it was going to review this pay gap in a bid to close the disparity in wages between staff from different ethnic groups.
The report also included NHS England’s disability pay gap, which was 6.64% in 2023/24, compared to 7.20% in 2022/23, and sexual orientation pay gap, which was 0.68% in 2023/24, down from 1.29% in 2022/23.
However, the Government has announced it will remove NHS England and roll functions into the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
Primary care minister Stephen Kinnock said last week that this decision was about decentralisation and greater empowerment of those on the frontline of healthcare.
The DHSC’s gender pay gap was 13.9% as of 31 March 2024, with women earning an average of 14p less per hour than men employed by the department.
