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An employment tribunal has, at a pre-hearing review, rejected a challenge to the introduction into the NHS of the "Agenda for Change" (AfC) pay structure and, in particular, the three pay protection arrangements that the Trusts have put in place in order to provide a cushion for employees who would otherwise have suffered a pay reduction (Hartley and others v Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust and others
Although the World Health Organisation currently puts the level of threat posed by swine flu at level 5 (meaning that a pandemic is considered to be imminent), so far the actual threat in the UK to human life or the economy has been negligible
The High Court has held that a compensation payment agreed by the NHS Trust with a departing chief executive was "irrationally generous" and therefore beyond the Trust's legal powers
