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Government policy on the healthcare workforce and how it was being communicated to the NHS was causing an element of confusion for nurses in December 1948.
NHS 75 Impact List
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NHS 75: The complete Nursing Times impact list
Meet 75 nurses and midwives who have positively shaped the NHS over the past 75 years or are doing so right now. Each day we will reveal 15 more names on our list.
Long Reads
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Nurse pay is never far from the headlines in the nursing press and the same was true in the autumn of 1948, when debate centred on setting salary scales in the NHS.
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Concerns about the financial pressures facing student nurses and newly qualified staff, along with the negative impact these have on workforce retention, are never far from the headlines
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This month’s issue of Nursing Times is focused on the theme of education – and so was the edition published on 4 September 1948.
NHS 75
Nursing Times will be publishing a series of special articles this year to mark the 75th anniversary of the National Health Service.
News
Opinion
From our NHS 75 sponsors
Staff Stories
Former staff stories
75 years of nursing history in Britain
War rages across the world, the NHS is born and the nuclear and antibiotic ages begin.
The NHS becomes established but the now-familiar problem of nurse shortages begins to emerge.
The profession is transformed by fairer pay, married women, male nurses and flexible hours.
Nurses march over pay, the RCN becomes a trade union and discipline is relaxed to boost morale.
Aids is a new health threat, the NHS has its longest pay dispute yet and the nursing regulator the UKCC is created.
Nursing prepares for the 21st century by revolutionising training and taking on greater responsibility.
