§ 55. Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will state the net weekly increase in pay of a student nurse in each year of training, a staff nurse and a nursing sister, respectively, following the implementation of the recommendation of the National 238 Board for Prices and Incomes' Report, assuming in each instance that the nurse is living in the hospital.
§ Dr. Dickson MabonAs the Answer is rather long, I shall, with permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Mr. HamiltonIt had better be good.
§ The Answer is as follows:
| Gross | Less Board and Loading | Net | ||||
| s | d. | s. | d. | s. | d. | |
| Student Nurse in first year of training | 5 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| Student Nurse in second year of training | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| Student Nurse in third year of training | 6 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Staff Nurse | 12 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 7 |
| Ward Sister | 16 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 11 |
§ The figures relate to the first stage only of the recommended increases in weekly pay after deduction of the appropriate charges for board and lodging taking account of the recommended changes. This award is retrospective to 1st October, 1967. The figures for the staff nurse and the ward sister are based on the means of the salary scales.
§ In addition the Board have recommended substantial further increases in nurses' pay including an increase in the allowances for psychiatric nursing from £50 to £100 and the introduction of an allowance for geriatric or chronic sick nursing, both to be effective from 1st April, 1968. Increases in the special duty allowances payable to nurses in training and the replacement of the present flat rate special duty allowances for working on Sundays and on night duty by a system of enhanced hourly rates recommended by the Board are under negotiation in the Nurses and Midwives Whitley Council. Other increases recommended to come into effect on 1st January, 1969 are also under negotiation in the Nurses and Midwives Whitley Council.