§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make it her policy to require NHS trusts(a) to hold all meetings in public and (b) to publish minutes of all meetings.
§ Mr. MaloneNo. National health service trusts are already required to hold one public meeting each year, at which they must present their annual accounts, annual report and any report on the accounts.
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§ Mrs. BeckettTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many trusts have introduced some aspect of performance-related pay for their staff;
(2) how many trusts have negotiated their own pay awards for staff.
§ Mr. Malone[holding answer 20 January 1995]: As national terms and conditions for management, ancillary, maintenance and ambulance staff have included performance-related pay for some time all trusts will have staff who benefit from such pay. Comprehensive information is not available centrally about the nature of new local terms and conditions being introduced in national health service trusts. However, from responses to a survey of trusts in autumn 1994, it is estimated that around 70 per cent. of trusts already had some staff on locally determined pay—involving over 10,000 nursing staff and a small but growing number of hospital doctors.