Health and social service journal
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Health authorities are charged with the management of the NHS on behalf of the Secretary of State. They are expected to provide leadership and guidance to their chief officers. How realistic is this expectation? Brian Watkin suggests Patrick Jenkin should think again about the constitution of health authorities as essentially lay bodies.
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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.