Nurses Salaries Committee

Did You Know?

• The committee published two reports in 1943, both by HMSO.
• The first report covered salaries and emoluments of female nurses in hospitals.
• The second report, published in December 1943, covered male nurses, public health nurses, district nurses, and state registered nurses in nurseries.

Membership

The committee was made up of two panels, each with twenty members. One panel represented employers, the other employees. The employers panel included the British Hospitals Association (in association with King Edward's Hospital Fund for London and the Nuffield Trust) with six seats, filled by Bernard Docker, Muriel M Edwards, S Clayton Fryers (Leeds General Infirmary), Gilbert G Panter, J P Wetenhall, and S P Richardson (later replaced by L Farrer Brown).

The County Councils Association held four seats, with W A Bullough, W B Cartwright, Wynne Cemlyn-Jones, and T O Steventon. The Association of Municipal Corporations had four seats, taken by Cyril Banks, J Lythgoe, GW Martin, and EC Parr. The London County Council held three seats, with John William Bowen, W Allen Daley, and Somerville Hastings. The Urban District Councils Association had one seat, held by Luther Bouch.

The Rural District Councils Association had one seat, held by E A Cross. The Queen's Institute of District Nursing had one seat, held by Elena Richmond. The employees panel consisted of the Royal College of Nursing with nine seats, filled by Irene H Charley, I B Clunas, Frances Goodall, Gladys Hillyers, Mildred Hughes, E O Jackson, Florence Taylor, Marianne Wenden, and Mercy Wilmshurst. The Trades Union Congress held five seats, with Dorothy M Elliott, George Gibson, Hilda M Gray, Arthur Moyle, and Doris E Westmacott.

The National Association of Local Government Officers (NALGO) had three seats, taken by H Allen, A G Bolton, and C A W Roberts. The Royal British Nurses' Association had one seat, held by Isabel MacDonald (later D G Tilby). The British College of Nurses had one seat. The Association of Hospital Matrons had one seat, held by Helen Dey.

A parallel committee was set up in Scotland, alongside the creation of a Nursing Division in the Ministry of Health, UK in 1941.