HCSA - the hospital doctors' union has called on the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration (DDRB) to recommend a pay award that will take a real step towards tackling long-term pay erosion for all grades of hospital doctors across the UK.

HCSA’s annual Hospital Doctors at Work survey paints a stark picture of consistently low morale and dangerous levels of stress and burnout. More than two-thirds estimate that morale in their workplace is currently low or very low. Fewer than half of hospital doctors across all grades said they would recommend medicine as a career to others.

Meanwhile, hospital doctors continue to emphasise the importance of higher basic wages to the future of the medical workforce, with half citing it as one of the steps that would most improve recruitment and retention. Insufficient progress has been made towards resolving the gender and ethnicity pay gaps in medicine.

HCSA's written evidence to the DDRB also detailed issues with training and the ongoing impact of pensions taxation.

HCSA will give oral evidence to the DDRB in the new year.

HCSA's full written submission is available here.