'Lansley must listen to nurses on the front line' Trevor Clay - won fair pay for nurses
Trevor Clay was the man who got nurses a fair pay deal as general secretary of the RCN from 1982 to 1987.
Mr Clay, who introduced the RCN to cross-party campaigning and developed a high media profile in the campaign that won an independent pay review body, clinical grading and a wholesale review of nursing education.
He died from emphysema, aged 50, in 1987.
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Percy Dantic | 11-Jan-2012 6:30 am
Who does the research on these things? Trevor Clay was probably the best leader the RCN has seen so it's a shame that he gets so few column inches considering his achievements. I'm no lover of the current RCN leadership but even I know that he was general secretary from 1982 - 1989 and died of emphysema at the age of 57 in 1994.
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Anonymous | 11-Jan-2012 10:47 am
so what will be the outcome of the current debates? will all the issues be resolved? will the whole health service just explode, implode or pack up altogether leaving even more with poor care or without any at all? or are these debates surrounding all the issues just going to go on and on through generations of nurses with no changes except frayed tempers, poorer working and living conditions for the staff and further declining services to the population?
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