Abstract
The long awaited McCarthy Report on the working of the Whitley Council machinery was published on December 2. It has 144 pages including appendices and is priced at £1.15, obtainable from the Department of Health & Social Services, Room 333, Friars House, 157–168 Blackfriars Road, London, S.E.1.
Lord McCarthy was appointed by the Secretary of State for Social Services in April 1975 as a special adviser to the Department of Health and charged with the specific task of reviewing the workings of the N.H.S. Whitley Council machinery and reporting to the Secretary of State. Lord McCarthy is a Fellow of Nuffield College and Oxford Management Centre and is an acknowledged expert on industrial relations. His main findings and recommendations are summarised here.
Whitley negotiations are carried out by a Whitley General Council and eight functional Councils which deal with various groupings of N.H.S. staff. Occupational therapists are represented on the Whitley P. T. ‘A’ functional Council. Approximately one million N.H.S. staff are represented on all Whitley Council.
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