The Labour Party and the Nursing Profession
1927 1927 1920s 40 pages 34 ADMIRALTY STAFF. There are employed on Fleet Service (boys' training school) two nursing sisters at a salary of £60, rising to £85 a year, plus a board and washing allowance of 21s. a week. These sums are inclusive of bonus. In addition, ther...
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London : The Labour Party (London : Co-operative Print. Society Ltd.)
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34 ADMIRALTY STAFF. There are employed on Fleet Service (boys' training school) two nursing sisters at a salary of £60, rising to £85 a year, plus a board and washing allowance of 21s. a week. These sums are inclusive of bonus. In addition, there are borne on the Estimates for the medical establishments at home and abroad (naval hospitals) three head sisters, seven superintendent sisters, and 57 sisters. The salaries of the head and superintendent sisters are not detailed in the Estimates, but the total cost of the three head sisters is £764, and of the superintendent sisters £1,367 for the year 1925-26. The nurses attached to the Army and Navy being regarded as strictly military or Navy personnel, as the case may be, are given no rights of Trade Union association, and such recommendations as individuals may desire to make in connection with their conditions of service have to be submitted through their respective officers to the matron-in-chief. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. The Office of Works is responsible for a staff of one matron and four nursing sisters in connection with Osborne House, Isle of Wight, a convalescence home for Navy, Army, and Air Force officers, and members of Government Services employed in tropical countries. Their conditions are left mainly in the hands of the local chiefs, and as far as is known this tiny group has no organisation of a union character. The matron receives £120-£10-£180 and the nursing sisters £60-£2 10s.-£80, plus Civil Service "cost of living" bonus, and in one case an additional allowance of £20 for dispensing. Most of the other scattered fully-trained nurses employed are attached to large staffs of women as welfare workers. The salary of these women varies from department to department. In one case the salary is equivalent to that of a temporary woman clerk round about 60s. a week; in another it is equivalent to that of a woman clerical officer with a maximum of £180 a year, plus Civil Service bonus, and in yet another case that of a woman executive officer in the training grade, i.e., £100 to £300 a year, plus Civil Service bonus. In addition to the strictly nursing services there are staffs borne on the Estimates under the heading of "Prisons — England and Wales," and ''Prisons — Scotland" respectively. These include the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum staff. It is understood that this staff, which should presumably include qualified nurses, do not have imposed upon them any particular professional qualifications. The staff are as follows: — One female chief attendant at 56s. 6d. - 2s.62s. - 6d. a week; three principal female attendants at 40s. 6d.- 1s. 6d.- 43s. 6d. a week; 41 female attendants at 26s. 6d.- 1s.- 36s. 6d. a week, rising after five years' further service to 37s. 6d. a week, and after another five years to 38s. 6d. a week. RECOMMENDATIONS. We are impressed with the satisfactory organisation on Whitley Council lines which exists in the Ministry of Pensions for the massage staff. We think that the nursing services of the Army and Navy and other State Departments could be improved in both status and efficiency by being organised on similar lines.
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