We found it the way most families do. A payslip that didn't feel right. One evening with a calculator. Seven years deep.
It's not just us
- NHS England admits it. "Unacceptable pay errors." Their words, 2024.
- The BMA has documented it. £8,000 recovered after six years on the wrong pay point. Fixing it took a year and 200 emails.
- The pattern is built in. Every rotation is a fresh payroll onboarding. New trust, same mistakes, copied forward.
- The unclaimed money is bigger still. 700,000 people missed £624 million in tax refunds in one year. Most doctors never claim at all.
So why has nobody fixed it?
Because every tool points the wrong way. Trust systems face the trust. Union checkers stop at a template email. Refund agents took 30 to 40% until HMRC stepped in. And the tools that remain ask you to rebuild your rota cell by cell and retype every number.
Checking your pay ends up harder than the shift that earned it. So everyone lets it go. That's not carelessness. It's exhaustion.
So we built the thing our family needed
SlipCheck reads the emails you already have and checks every line against the official pay rules. No forms. No grids. Never a percentage of your money.
The first fifty NHS households get the full check free. Ours was the first.
Sources: NHS England, Improving the working lives of doctors in training (2024) · BMA, On the ground: recouping pay (2022) · ICAEW (2026)