The Mayston Report (1969) or the Report on Management Structure in the Local Authority Nursing Services was the report of a working party appointed to consider improvements to the management of United Kingdom local authority nursing services in the way that the Salmon Report had examined management of hospital nurses.
6-476: The working party had been set up after Salmon and due to the recommendations of the Prices and Incomes Board to ensure that the pay and hierarchy of local authority nurses be linked with those of nurses in hospital services. A nurses' pay claim was in progress when the group was established in 1968 so a report was required in autumn 1969. This reason was given for not taking evidence or conducting research beyond examining
12-799: The DHSS ) was a ministry of the British government in existence for twenty years from 1968 until 1988, and was headed by the Secretary of State for Social Services . In 1953, the Ministry of Pensions and the Ministry of National Insurance were merged to create the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance . In 1966, the Supplementary Benefits Commission (part of the National Assistance Board )
18-527: The department was titled 'Department of Health and Social Security', the title of the cabinet minister with responsibility for the department was 'secretary of state for social services'. In 1988 the department was split again into a separate Department of Health and the Department of Social Security . In 2001 the Department for Work and Pensions was formed from the Department of Social Security, absorbing
24-458: The employment functions which had previously been the responsibility of the Department for Education and Employment since the dissolution of the Department of Employment in 1995. Even two and a half decades after its abolition, the initials "DHSS" continue to be used by the general public to describe the Department for Work and Pensions or some of the benefits it provides (such as Income Support ). This article related to government in
30-929: The existing structures. Mr E.L. Mayston of the Department of Health and Social Security was the chair . The Mayston report recommended opportunities for experienced nurses to work in management, as had the Salmon Report. 11 pilot schemes were created to act as models for how to implement the structure recommended by Mayston, based on learning from the implementation of the Salmon Report recommendations. Grade titles established by these schemes were: Director of Nursing Services, Divisional Nursing Officer and Area Nursing Officer (a State registered nurse with community nursing experience and qualification in health visiting, district nursing or midwifery) and Nursing Officer (a district nurse, health visitor or district midwife). Department of Health and Social Security The Department of Health and Social Security (commonly known as
36-465: Was merged with the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance to form the new Ministry of Social Security , as part of the Ministry of Social Security Act 1966 . In 1968, the Ministry of Social Security and the Ministry of Health were dissolved and their functions merged into a new Department of Health and Social Security by an Order in Council which came into operation on 1 November 1968. Although
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