Employment contracts currently use a combination of the job code and professional category. For example a contract may refer to ‘Physicist’ (Applied Physics) which is the label of job code 7081, and this is in addition to the professional category 211, 7081 being one of the possible assignments of 211. This multi-layered, complex system needed to be simplified.

BMJs will offer this simplification in that future contracts will simply use a single coding system which will be that of the BMJ Title – immediately assigning the new recruit to the correct BMJ title.