Recruitment, training & development of administrative & clerical staff in the hospital service : a progress report for the period 1964 to 1968.

  • Great Britain. Department of Health and Social Security. National Staff Committee.
Date:
[1969]
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Credit: Recruitment, training & development of administrative & clerical staff in the hospital service : a progress report for the period 1964 to 1968. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Establishment and terms of reference 1. In his Report for the year ended 31st December 1961 the Minister of Health stated that various measures had been taken in recent years to improve the administrative and clerical staffing of the hospital service; that nevertheless there was evidence of a widespread feeling in the hospital service that the time had come to consider once more whether the broad objectives of staffing policy could be and were being achieved under the existing arrangements or what more needed to be done, and by what stages, to ensure that these objectives were achieved; and that he had therefore decided, in December 1961, to set up a Committee of Inquiry under the chair- manship of Sir Stephen Lycett Green, with the following terms of reference: : ‘““Having regard to the need for maintaining a high standard of efficiency in the administration of National Health Service hospitals, to enquire into the present arrangements for recruit- ment, training and promotion of administrative and clerical staffs in the hospital service, and to make recommendations’”’. The Committee of Inquiry was constituted early in 1962. The Committee’s Report and Recommendations 2. The Lycett Green Committee reported to the Minister in 1963. The first of their main recommendations was that new staff commit- tees, at regional and national level, should be created to ensure more effective co-ordination of appointments, training and promotion which was essential for the efficiency of the Service. A summary of their main recommendations is given in Appendix I. Acceptance by the Minister of the Committee’s Report 3. On Ist July 1964, the Minister stated in Parliament that he accepted generally the main recommendations of the Lycett Green Committee which were designed to ensure more effective co-ordina- tion of the making of appointments and of staff training and move- ment; that he proposed to consider the detailed recommendations and their implications in consultation with the National Staff Com- mittee when it was set up; that Mr. A. V. Martin, C.B.E., Chairman ]