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 the existing structures.
[1] Mr E.L. Mayston of the Department of Health and Social Security was the chair.
[2] 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.