title: Pay award clarification.
abstract: Nurses and General Managers need urgent clarification from the Government over the exact position about the funding of the 1988 Pay Award. The management side are sending out clear messages to Health Authorities that this is a cash limited exercise. This flies in the face of Margaret Thatcher's statement that the award will be fully funded, and the pay review bodies clear statememt that the cost of the exercise quoted in its report is merely a DHSS estimate not a finite sum.
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bolger