The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7306 p3
3 July 2004

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NHS employers organisation to be set up

Responsibility for NHS workforce issues, including conducting national negotiations on the pay and conditions of staff, will pass to a newly-created “NHS Employers’ Organisation” on 1 October.

The organisation, which will be run by the NHS Confederation, is to draw together NHS employers’ views on how to implement NHS employment policy. It is also to support the implementation and delivery of “Agenda for change”.

Decisions made by the organisation could potentially affect pharmacists employed by NHS trusts, primary care trusts and health authorities in England, trusts and local health boards in Wales, trusts and NHS boards in Scotland and health and social services trusts and boards in Northern Ireland.

Announcing the launch of the NHS Employers’ Organisation, John Reid, Health Secretary, said that it will provide an “authoritative voice” for NHS employers and will have a “key role in promoting the NHS as an employer”.