Professional Unions in the National Health Service: membership trends and issues Available to Purchase

One criticism of the Donovan Report was that it paid little attention to the public sector. This paper is concerned with one part of the public sector, the National Health Service and a section of the trade union organisations existing within it, namely the professional unions. The terms ‘professional unions’ is chosen deliberately in spite of the fact that the organisations under scrutiny coincide exactly with what are usually called ‘professional associations’.