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Table 1 The implementation timetable for Agenda for Change.

From: Assessing the impact of a new health sector pay system upon NHS staff in England

May 1997

Labour government elected

September 1997

Exploratory talks on a new NHS pay system begin

December 1997

White Paper on modernising the NHS is published

February 1999

Agenda for Change- Modernising the NHS Pay System is published

October 1999

First joint statement of progress

November 2000

Second joint statement of progress

November 2001

Third joint statement of progress

December 2002

Framework agreement agreed and published

January 2003

Proposed agreement and three-year pay deal announced

June 2003

'Early implementer' sites begin to implement Agenda for Change in England

December 2004

National roll-out of Agenda for Change starts in England

September 2005

Original deadline for assimilating staff on to new pay and conditions

October 2006

Original deadline for implementation of Knowledge and Skills Framework

February 2007 – April 2007

Consultation on draft proposals for unsocial hours payments

2007

Full implementation (other than ongoing consultation on new unsocial hours payments)

  1. Source: Buchan and Evans 2007 [1]