A NEW METHOD

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 60, Issue 4340, 6 October 1950, Page 6

A NEW METHOD

STAFF DOCTORS’ PAY GRADING COMMITTEE DEPARTMENT EXPLANATION The newly constituted Medical Officers’ Salaries Grading Committee, the function of which was to grade, within the scales of salary set out in the Hospital Employment Regulations, had met recently and had made decisions as to salaries to be paid to medical officers of the Thames Hospital Board, stated a communication from the Department of Health to t the September meeting of' the Thames board. The department stated that the committee’s determination served merely to confirm an existing salary scale. In all such cases a determination by the committee had been deemed necessary since the new regulations required designation as specialists or as medical officers of special scale to be determined by the committee. In certain other instances the committee had decided to take no action at present or to defer the ques - tion of grading till a later date. -In any case the existing salary scale remained in force in accordance with the provisions of regulation 89. The committee desired to thank those hospital boards which had forwarded recommendations concerning members of their medical staffs. Such recommendations were given carefui consideration hut it would be . appreciated that the committee, having regard to the relative status and responsibilities of medical officers throughout the country, was not able to adopt in full the individual recommendations of all boards. Any rewommen'dation for an alteration in the salary scales themselves was not within the scope of the grading committee’s functions but remained a matter for the appropriate salaries advisory committee, continued the statement. Whether it would be (possible to ipiroivi'de, in a future aunendiment to the employment regulations, suitlable machinery for appeals after (the determinations of a grading committee bad been announced iwas iat present under consideration. It was the intention that the Medical Officers’ Salaries Grading Committee 'Should conduct an annua review of the salaries scales of all hospital medical officers who came under grading committee procedure.