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Much needed improvements were made in junior hospital doctors ’ salaries.

From 1959 to 1970, while the earnings of manual workers increased by 75 %, the salaries of registrars more than doubled while those of house officers more than trebled.

Most of these improvements, such as for nurses, came in the pay settlements of 1970.

On a limited scale, reports by the National Board for Prices and Incomes encouraged incentive payments schemes to be development in local government and elsewhere.

In February 1969, the government accepted an “ above the ceiling ” increase for farmworkers, a low-paid group.

Some groups of professional workers, such as nurses, teachers, and doctors, gained substantial awards.