Britain's Health Services
1942-10 1942 1940s 40 pages Parliament and with the Ministry of Health, but health workers (and especially nurses) are reminded that improvements in conditions can best and most quickly be effected by their own action. To this end they must work in Trade Unions, professional associations, and throug...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : Communist Party of Great Britain
October 1942
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| Summary: | 1942-10
1942
1940s
40 pages
Parliament and with the Ministry of Health, but health workers (and especially nurses) are reminded that improvements in conditions can best and most quickly be effected by their own action. To this end they must work in Trade Unions, professional associations, and through the medium of Joint Consultative Committees (see page 12) ; and the following are submitted by the Communist Party as proposals for immediate discussion in such bodies:— (a) Female Nurses i. Wages. — In the main, there are two groups of regular nurses — Student Nurses and State registered Nurses. Student Nurses These are usually girls of from 18 to 22 who, whilst receiving theoretical and practical tuition in nursing are employed in Hospitals recognised by the General Nursing Council as Training Schools. It is invariably argued that because they are in the nature of trainees, these girls should receive "pin-money" only for their arduous work and long hours of duty. This is, of course, a convenient and very cheap argument to Hospitals for whom a large amount of semi-domestic work and "hack nursing" is undertaken by these so-called probationers. The argument cannot, however, ignore the fact that without this form of cheap labour Hospitals would be put to considerable expense to get the equivalent amount of work done. It is only fair, therefore, that the Student Nurses should receive a wage and not merely pin-money. Grants should be made to Hospitals for this purpose. We propose, in addition to residential emoluments (board, lodging, laundry, etc.), which should not be less than £100 per annum in value, the following rates for all Student Nurses:— 1st Year Students £50 per annum. 2nd „ „ £60 „ „ 3rd „ „ £70 „ „ 4th „ „ £80 „ „ * *College of Nursing Scale:— 1st Year Students £30 per annum. 2nd „ „ £35 „ „ 3rd „ „ £40 „ „ 4th „ „ £50 „ „ 19
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