The Labour Party and the Nursing Profession
1927 1927 1920s 40 pages 3 CONFERENCE OF NURSING AND KINDRED ORGANISATIONS held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on January 28th, 1927. A Conference of Nursing and Kindred Organisations, summoned by the Labour Party, was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on January 28th, 1927, to consider the general q...
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London : The Labour Party (London : Co-operative Print. Society Ltd.)
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3 CONFERENCE OF NURSING AND KINDRED ORGANISATIONS held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on January 28th, 1927. A Conference of Nursing and Kindred Organisations, summoned by the Labour Party, was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on January 28th, 1927, to consider the general question of better conditions for Nurses, the Leader of the Party (Rt. Hon. J. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P.) opening the proceedings with an address of welcome, the text of which is recorded on pages 6 and 7. The Conference was conducted in two sessions, the Right Hon. F.O. Roberts, M.P. (ex-Minister of Pensions and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Labour Party), presiding in the morning, and Mrs. Sidney Webb in the afternoon. The document presented to the Conference was the Draft Report on the Nursing Profession, prepared by a Joint Sub-Committee of the Labour Party's Advisory Committee on Public Health and the Standing Joint Committee of Industrial Women's Organisations. As will be seen from page 8, Parts I. and II. of the Draft Report were based on the replies received to a questionnaire sent to various Hospitals in different parts of the country. Replies were not received from all the Hospitals to which the questionnaire was circulated, but the tables contained in the Report (age of admission, wages, and hours) probably represent a fair average of the conditions which at present obtain. Since the issue of the Draft Report correspondents have called attention to cases outside the range of these tables, but these relate to Institutions which did not reply to the questionnaire. At the Conference, criticism of the recommendations made in the Report on pages 24-28 ranged round the following questions : The desirability of the Nursing Profession being organised on Trade Union lines; the age of entry to the Profession ; the need for medical examination before appointment ; educational standards for entrants; professional training and training schools; wages; hours; pensions; uniform, and the relations between Local Authorities and District Nursing Associations. Most of these criticisms were of minor importance, but the Committees responsible for the Report think it desirable to call attention to the following points. AGE OF ADMISSION. (Page 24 of the Report.) It has been suggested that the age of admission — 18 — is too young, and that the paragraph should be altered to read: — "The minimum age of admission to training in Hospital should be 20, with the exception of Children's Hospitals and certain special Hospitals, when in some instances it might be 18. The intervening years between leaving school and taking up Nursing could be usefully spent in Nursery Schools." The Committees gave considerable attention to this problem, and from the facts placed before it it appeared that reductions in the minimum age of admission had been going on for many years past and was a matter on which there was reasonable ground for difference of opinion. Another factor was the difficulty of filling up the period between the school-leaving
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