HC Deb 30 January 1991 vol 184 c529W
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.

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