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Before an agency nurse is employed, employers should have gone through the criteria for employing bank and agency nurses set out in the Accounts Commission report Temporary Measures, which was published in February 2000.
First, the Executive said that it would be ready to supply cylinders through the NHS in July, but it has now moved that date to October. Do you have a date in October for when cylinders will be available?
Although those proposals are a long way down the line—the commencement date for the batteries directive is 2011, while the date for the REACH regulation is uncertain—I remember what happened with the directive on refrigerators and waste.