To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will list for each district health authority the cost to district health authorities of successful appeals by nurses against their clinical grading;(2) if he will list for each district health authority the total number of appeals at district health authority level by nurses against their clinical grading which have been
(a) upheld and (b) rejected;
(3) if he will list in each district health authority (a) the total number of appeals lodged by nurses against their clinical grading and (b) the number of appeals which are still outstanding;
(4) if he will list in each regional health authority (a) the total number of appeals lodged by nurses against their clinical grading and (b) the number of appeals which are still outstanding.
This information is not collected centrally.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for each regional health authority the total number of appeals at regional health authority level by nurses against their clinical grading which have been (a) upheld and (b) rejected;
The information requested is given in the table.
| Decision | |||
| Regions | Allowed | Disallowed | Failure to agree |
| England | |||
| Northern | 7 | 4 | 27 |
| Yorkshire | 8 | 6 | 11 |
| Trent | 1 | — | 1 |
| East Anglian | — | — | — |
| North West Thames | 9 | — | 17 |
| North East Thames | 8 | 3 | 48 |
| South East Thames | 13 | — | 30 |
| South West Thames | 6 | — | 14 |
| Wessex | — | — | 2 |
| Oxford | 7 | 1 | 121 |
| South Western | 31 | 11 | 50 |
| West Midlands | 8 | 1 | 10 |
| Mersey | 1 | — | 2 |
| North Western | 14 | 1 | 23 |
| Total | 113 | 27 | 356 |