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Cuts campaign: Keep Our NHS Public!
Partial Reprieve for Brookfields
July 2008
CAMBRIDGESHIRE Primary Care Trust has decided to keep part of Brookfields Hospital in Cambridge open, after earlier threatening to close it.
At an open meeting in June, the PCT decided to keep twelve beds open at Brookfields for rehabilitation, and keep another twelve for optional use. The PCT will plough extra resources into community-based care, although campaigners have expressed strong concern about the standard of care being provided in the community, especially by private organisations.
At the meeting Martin Booth, Cambridge Heath UNISON branch chair, also called for more information about plans to put two wards at the hospital out to tender for providing a neuro rehabilitation service. He warned that if a private company took over these wards that this would be a ‘foot in the door’ for big private healthcare companies to come into the local NHS.
Generally campaigners feel that the situation at Brookfields is a step forwards from where we were six months ago, but there is still a major campaign to be waged, especially regarding standards of long-term care for elderly people. UNISON will continue to play a leading role in this campaign.
Cambridge Weighting (Campaign for a NHS Cambridge High Cost Area Supplement)
Three Year Pay Deal proposed, but no HCAS included
April 2008
Despite all of Carole's hard work, including liasing with Addenbrooke's Hospital Management over recruitment and retention issues the 2008 pay talks have concluded with another defeat for our claim.
We were told as last year that there wasn't enough evidence of recruitment issues, which is dissapointing to say the least.
Branch activists will now review all our submissions and evidence collated over several years, and will no doubt be arranging member meetings in the near future to decide what we should do next.
The Future of the Fulbourn Laundry (NHS)
March 2008 Unfortuntaly despite hard work from the members and UNISON Branch officers Addenbrooke's Hospital will be placing the laundry out to Tender. This was decided a a Trust Board of Governers where despite writing to the Cheif Executive UNISON was not allowed to present its case in person. However it is clear that directors had seen the submission, as they have decided that all staff currently employed in the Laundry would be guaranteed a job within the Hospital, and that any successfull tender would be very closely scrutensied and monitored throughout its life. UNISON will ensure that members get a good choice of jobs with no loss of monies, and any additional training they need - as for the laundry itself, the lead officer has been informed that he will shortly be invited to join the project board, again to ensure that any company securing the contract meets UNISONs minmum standards of reasonable employment behaviour. December 2007 Due to the succesfull conclusion of our campiagn against local outsourcing of medical secretary work, this campaign section will not be updated in the near future, for the back history and ideas of how to prevent this in your area you may continue to follow the link to the full storeyLaundry to be closed down
Medical Secretary: Outsourcing and Campaigning
Outsourcing Victory - Branch formally places Campaign on successfully closed list
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