Health and social service journal
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Hourly rates of pay and long hours are contentious topics among hospital administrators and junior doctors. The introduction of a DHSS circular on control of charges by agencies is being firmly opposed by junior doctors as well as agencies.
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Author peers throuth the 'perpetual fog' that is pay--pay policy, pay restraint, pay freeze--to try to discern the way wages are negotiated, the 'lumpy' aspect of the structure and the problems of job evaluation and reward; matters which, he says, will keep Whitley in steady and altruistically gainful employment for some time to come.