The Mayston Report (1969) or the Report on Management Structure in the Local Authority Nursing Services was the report of a working party appointed to consider improvements to the management of United Kingdom local authority nursing services in the way that the
Salmon Report
The Salmon Report (1966) or the Salmon Report on Senior Nursing Staff Structure was the report of a committee established to bring standardisation in structure and pay for senior hospital nurses in England and Scotland. The report recommended chan ...
had examined management of hospital nurses.
Context
The working party had been set up after Salmon and due to the recommendations of the Prices and Incomes Board to ensure that the pay and hierarchy of local authority nurses be linked with those of nurses in hospital services. A nurses' pay claim was in progress when the group was established in 1968 so a report was required in autumn 1969. This reason was given for not taking evidence or conducting research beyond examining the existing structures.
Working party
Mr E.L. Mayston of the
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Recommendations and impact
The Mayston report recommended opportunities for experienced nurses to work in management, as had the Salmon Report.
11 pilot schemes were created to act as models for how to implement the structure recommended by Mayston, based on learning from the implementation of the Salmon Report recommendations. Grade titles established by these schemes were: Director of Nursing Services, Divisional Nursing Officer and Area Nursing Officer (a State registered nurse with community nursing experience and qualification in health visiting, district nursing or midwifery) and Nursing Officer (a district nurse, health visitor or district midwife).
See also
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Briggs Report
The Briggs Report (1972) was the Report of the Committee on Nursing in the United Kingdom, which reviewed the role of Nursing, nurses and Midwife, midwives in hospitals and in community care. It made recommendations on Nurse education, education, ...
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Salmon Report
The Salmon Report (1966) or the Salmon Report on Senior Nursing Staff Structure was the report of a committee established to bring standardisation in structure and pay for senior hospital nurses in England and Scotland. The report recommended chan ...
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Platt Report 1964
The Platt Report (1964) or the Platt Report(s) on the Reform of Nursing Education was the report of Harry Platt upon the investigations of a committee established by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). It made recommendations about how Nursing, n ...
References
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Health care reports of the United Kingdom government
Nursing in the United Kingdom
1969 documents
1969 in the United Kingdom