Local pay is the only way forward for nurses, according to to the health secretary. Stephen Dorrell told the Conservative Medical Society fringe meeting
"Pay should not be fixed in Whitehall, but be a core function of local manangement at local level is somtething we regard as instrinsic to the local flexible health service we have developed"
Stephen Dorrell Conservative Party conference October 1996
article Nursing Times 16 October 1996
