Nurses (Grading) (Hansard, 30 January 1991)

§ Mr. Jack Thompson
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he has any proposals to change the nurses regrading appeals procedures.

§ Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
Nurses' grading appeals are heard under an agreement of the General Whitley Council. Any changes to these procedures for appeals would therefore be a matter for the council.
When the nurse clinical grading structure was negotiated the management side of the Nursing and Midwifery Staffs Negotiating Council offered to discuss a streamlined procedure specifically for clinical grading appeals, but the staff side chose not to pursue this possibility.

§ Mr. Jack Thompson
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what is the average cost of conducting an appeal tribunal for nurses' regrading;
(2) how many regrading appeals by members of the nursing profession are currently awaiting assessment in the Northumberland district health authority;
(3) how many regrading appeals by members of the nursing profession are currently awaiting assessment in the Northern regional health authority;
(4) how many regrading appeals by members of the nursing profession are currently awaiting assessment in the national health service.

§ Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
This information is not collected centrally.