ABSTRACT
The last major review of the pay and conditions of the Professions Supplementary to Medicine had been undertaken in 1974, under the chairmanship of the Rt. Hon. Earl of Halsbury. The Halsbury Committee had reported in December 1974 and recommended pay increases backdated to May 1974. On 14 March 1979, the Staff and Management Sides of the Whitley Council submitted to the Secretary of State for Social Services a jointly agreed document, setting out the case for a comparability study for the PSMs, on similar lines to the study then envisaged for nurses and midwives. This document states that since Halsbury the pay of the PSMs had declined, and that the precise shortfall could only be properly established by an ‘independent and impartial consideration of all the relevant factors’.
