Agenda for Change is the most ambitious pay reform introduced into the NHS. In addition to simplifying the system of pay, its objectives were to improve the delivery of patient care as well as staff recruitment, retention and motivation. This paper examines progress in implementation based on interviews with key ...
This briefing provides a review of progress made since the BBC's 2002 'Your NHS' day on the five top priorities voted for by the public as the issues that mattered most in the NHS. These priorities were: free long-term care for older people; better pay for NHS staff; shorter waiting ...
This report was prompted by the current debate on how best to determine nurses pay in the NHS. Increased emphasis on cost, devolution of managerial responsibility, and the establishment of NHS Trusts are key elements of the NHS reforms, and will have a major impact on the way nurses pay ...
During 1984, the King's Fund and the National Association of Health Authorities agreed to set up a joint working party, under the chairmanship of Lady McCarthy, to review the present system of pay determination in the NHS and to make recommendations for reform. This report covers the present Whitley Council ...
This document produces the results of an investigation into the operation of industrial units. Three aspects of the operation of such units was looked at in particular: the possibility of obtaining work from government or hospital service sources; methods of payment in the units; pricing of contracts.