| Description | Correspondence includes 1992 DCP Survey of Waiting Lists in National Health Service Clinical report with annotation by Stephen White and November - December 1992 press release, draft question for Keith Vaz and Keith Hampson, [BPS Sponsored Member sof Parliament MP] concerning concerning both the report and proposals by some Regional Health Authorities to move from salaried Clinical Psychology trainees to bursaries. Cover letter to the Secretary of State for Health (for the DCP Survey report]. Also correspondence with Secretary of House of Commons Health Committee; Tim Yeo Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health; response from MENCAP, copy press cuttings,
Also draft and final press release "Clinical Psychology Under Threat and correspondence (copy letters out and some replies) November 1992-January 1993 from
Tony Lavender (Chair of the Committee on Training in Clinical Psychology) to Organisers of Clinical Psychology Courses;
Stephen Newstead (Chair of Membership and Qualifications Board) to Regional Health Authorities, Training Commissioners and Regional General Managers and
Malcolm Adams Chair of the Division of Clinical Psychology to the Office of Fair Training and the Inland Revenue, NHS Executive and Virginia Bottomley Secretary of State for Health;
Stephen White to Health Select Committee and to Dame Jill Knight, to sponsored MPs Ketih Vaz and Keith Hampson
David Brown MSF Union to o Regional Health Authorities, Training Commissioners and Regional General Managers
Graham Turpin Chair of the Division of Clinical Psychology to Executive Director Human Resources Northern Regiona Health Authority
all concerning proposals to change the way clinical training are are paid during training and (later dropped) by the Northern Group of Regional Training Commissioners to change to bursary funding for clinical trainees. Also press release launch of Bursary Scheme January 1993. Paper of meeting of Committee on Training in Clinical Psychology CTCP 16 February 1993 to discuss strategy on clinical bursaries including draft of "What is a Trainee Clinical Psychologist Worth? The Effects and Long Term Implications of Bursary Funding for Clinical Training" (Malcolm Adams, Tony Lavender, Anne Richardson and Graham Turpin), a report on the West Midlands experience of the Bursary scheme; annotated and revised version of 1988 policy statement on the Implications of adopting a bursary model of training; 'GP Fund holding: News and the Next Steps Bernard Kat DCP January 1993; notes of DCP Policy Meeting 26-27 ~April 1993 |
| AdminHistory | Although the Patient's Charter aimed to guarantee minimum waiting times for treatment there was no data capture of waiting times for clinical psychology so the BPS Division of Clinical Psychology did a survey of 800 clinical psychologists and found that over 10,500 people were on a NHS clinical psychology waiting list with over 47000 waiting longer than six months. The report was sent to Virginia Bottomley, Secretary of State for Health on 24 November 1992.
In 1988 the BPS Membership and Qualifications Board and the Division of Clinical Psychology issued a policy statement on the implications of adopting the bursary model of training on the quality and supply of newly qualified clinical psychologist. On the 30th October 1992 news received by the BPS Committee for Training of Clinical Psychologists CTCN that the Northern Regions were proposing to move to bursaries for clinical psychology training. During November lobbying letters from Society and DCP including the Secretary of State (18 November 1992). "3 November a preliminary survey of amongst assistants by Joanne Claydon finds that 66% would reconsider their applications if bursaries introduced. Press Release by the BPS 3 November 1993 'Clinical Psychology Under Threat';. Launch of bursary scheme by the Department of Health 27 January 1993, letters to Secretary of State via BPS sponsored MPs February 1993 and the reissue of the 1988 policy statement on the implications. |
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