Emergency Medicine and pay banding

Hopefully this isn't a daft question...

EM contracts are still eligible for pay banding supplement are they not? I'm positive they are, but recently I read an article that stated a reason for low morale in EM is " the fact that the consultant receives the same salary if he works 9am-6pm on a typically wednesday, as he does for working 10pm to 6am on christmas day".

Surely this can't be correct? I realise the pay banding is dictated by the overall contract unsocial hours allocated, rather than one particular shift, but still, a christmas day shift should still collect some unsociable/bank holiday or weekend supplement?

Is this simply inaccurate journalism, or am I missing something? Are the out of hours/weekend supplements for EM different to some other speciliaties? due to the nature of their rota and shift patterns?

Pay banding is only for junior doctors. Consultants are contracted and receive a fixed salary.

The reality is slightly more complicated than this but generally, that's how it goes.

Banding is applicable for anyone from FY1 to ST7. Consultant get paid for sessions. One session (called a PA) is 4 hours. A normal contract would be for 10 to 12 PAs per week, normally with 2.5 PAs used for admin work or teaching (called SPAs.) On-call cover (out of hours) is paid at the base rate + 1/3rd. Post tax a single PA is worth about £100 (so you take home £20 per hour.) Many consultants will work over their scheduled hours, as things never fit neatly into 4 hour sessions, and these will no be paid.