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Phlebotomy: Pay

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN HL1078, tabled on 14 June 2021

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the pay banding scales for phlebotomists in the NHS.

Answered on

22 June 2021

In the National Health Service, pay arrangements for phlebotomists fall under the national Agenda for Change pay structure. Staff are placed in one of nine pay bands on the basis of the knowledge, responsibility, skills and effort needed for the job, rather than their job title.