Shorter hours, higher salaries, and universal pensions for Scottish nurses are amongst the outstanding recommendations contained in the report of the Scottish Departmental Committee on Nursing, published to-day.
These recommendations are made in view of the shortage of nursing recruits, and other proposals designed to make the profession more attractive include greater freedom for those entering it, relief from many purely domestic tasks in hospitals, and improved living conditions . As regards recruitment, the Committee found that, during the past five or six years two-thirds of the hospitals were suffering from a decrease in the number of candidates offering themselves for service, and that although the large voluntary hospitals of wide repute were still finding applicants in sufficient numbers to enable them to be selective, the supply had shrunk by about one-half.
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