Your rota, your pay and your tax code are probably wrong.
Last year NHS trusts sent 2,683 of their own staff to bailiffs over pay the trusts had got wrong, up from 1,807 four years earlier, and the rota software most of them use has miscounted less than full time hours since 2016. Nobody is checking your payslip against your rota. This does.
Sources: NHS trusts’ freedom of information returns to the BBC, quoted by the BMA, 17 February 2026; the BMA on Allocate eRota, 3 July 2026.
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Four things your trust will never do for you.
Check your rota is legal, check your payslip against it, write the email when it is wrong, and price your next move. Complete does all four, in a few minutes a month.
Check your hospital isn't working you illegally, or outside your contract.
Create your shift patterns and fill the calendar with your actual rota. Complete runs it against the safe working checks to make sure your rota is legal and within your contract. Each breach then drops into an email you can send to the team that can fix it.
Tap in your shifts
Safe working checks
- No more than an average of 48 hours a weekWithin the limit
- No more than 72 hours' work in any 168 hoursWithin the limit
- At least 46 hours' rest after any night shift or run of themWithin the limit
- A full-time work schedule is 40 to 48 hours a weekWithin the limit
Four of the 11 rules, on an example rota with five long days in a row.
Compare your actual rota against your payslip to know exactly whether this month's pay is right.
A calculator only knows the hours you type. Complete counts every shift on your rota, then sets the month against your payslip line by line. If you are short, you see by how much. This is more advanced and accurate than using the Basic Pay Calculator alone.
Your rota priced, against your payslip
| Basic pay | £3,436 | Matches |
| Additional hours | £451 | Matches |
| Enhanced hours (nights) | £199 | Matches |
| Weekend allowance | £258 | Not on the payslip |
Payslip incomplete on the example month: the weekend allowance is missing.
The email asking for correction is automatically written.
Drafted automatically, in the language the department you are writing to understands, citing the contract paragraph behind every finding. Add your name, then copy, print, save or send it.
Drafted for you
1 findingWork schedule query: FY1, Acute medicine, an NHS trust, from 3 August 2026
I am writing about the generic work schedule for my FY1 post in Acute medicine, an NHS trust from 3 August 2026. I have gone through the rota against the 2016 terms and conditions and there are one thing I would be grateful if you could check with me before the next payroll run.
See what your next decision does to your take-home before you make it.
Going 80%, moving to Wales, picking up locums: put the change on the right, today on the left, and the difference in your monthly take-home appears underneath.
Now, full time, a London trust
£3,100
a month
What if: FY2 next August
£3,402
a month
Complete checks your rota against the 2016 terms and conditions of service and the Working Time Regulations as we have read them, and we have reviewed those readings with care. It is not legal advice. For a decision that matters, confirm the position with the BMA, your trust’s medical staffing team or a legal representative.
Get paid what you’re actually entitled to.
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- ✓Basic Pay Calculator, for residents and consultants in all four nations
- ✓NHS pay scales, from each nation's pay circular
- ✓Interactive Payslip Explainer
- ✓Tax Relief Calculator
Billed yearly as £30. Cancel any time.
Complete checks the 2016 contract for resident doctors in England. It does not check Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish or consultant contracts.
- ✓Everything in Minimum. The calculator for four nations, the pay scales, the payslip explainer and tax relief.
- ✓Rota Compliance Check. Make sure your trust is not making you work illegally. Your actual rota, checked shift by shift against your contract.
- ✓Personalised Payslip Check. Your own rota and your own payslip side by side, month by month, so you know whether the money that arrived matches the shifts you actually worked.
- ✓Automatic Correction Email. Written for you from your rota check, quoting every breach and every element your schedule under-states or leaves out, addressed to the team that can fix it. You add your name and press send.
- ✓Test Career Decisions. Less than full time, a change of grade, a London trust, or a move to Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, side by side with today.
- ✓Advanced salary payslip breakdowns. Gross pay composition, where every pound goes, your deductions and pay per period, all from your own rota.
- ✓Save every breakdown. Each rotation, its rota and every payslip you check are saved to your account, so next month is one field to fill in rather than a fresh start.
| Feature | Minimum | Complete |
|---|---|---|
| Basic Pay Calculator, four nations, residents and consultants | ||
| NHS pay scales | ||
| Interactive Payslip Explainer | ||
| Tax Relief Calculator | ||
| Your first payslip and FY1 shadowing on the calculator | ||
| Rota Compliance Check: your rota, painted on a calendar, checked against your contract | – | |
| Personalised Payslip Check: your payslip against your own rostered shifts, month by month | – | |
| The correction email, drafted from your findings, exported or sent | – | |
| Test career decisions side by side | – | |
| Advanced payslip breakdowns | – |