A thousand cleaners, porters, caterers, maintenance workers and other facilities staff at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT) face being sold out of the health service, UNISON warns today. The trust, which runs hospitals in Basildon, Chelmsford and Southend, wants to contract out all ‘soft facilities’ services – jobs such as cleaning, catering […]
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Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is planning on making nearly 150 staff redundant in response to government spending cuts, UNISON says today. The threatened staff play a vital role in the smooth running of the trust, which operates Addenbrooke’s and Rosie hospitals, says the union. They include administrators, booking co-ordinators, project managers, clinical educators, […]
UNISON Eastern is sad to goodbye today to Tracy Lavery, one of the reps who fought tireless to stop outsourcing at Colchester Hospital. A housekeeper for the last 18 years, she became a leading and much-loved figure in the Colchester and Ipswich Area Health branch, dedicating her last year to her UNISON colleagues and the […]
Plans to cut around 500 jobs at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital Foundation Trust could damage patient care, UNISON warns today. The trust, which employs more than 11,000 people in Norwich and Cromer, told staff this week that the jobs must go to balance the books. Government ministers have told NHS trusts to reduce support […]
Peterborough City Hospital still “requires improvement,” the Care Quality Commission (CQC) says in a report published today. Inspectors carried out unannounced inspections in July 2024 in response to concerns about emergency and medical care. The report re-rated urgent and emergency care and safe and responsive as requires improvement. Well-led improved from requires improvement to good. […]
Phlebotomists in East and North Herts hospitals have won a £2,000 a year pay rise, after successfully arguing that their jobs should be upbanded. The workers, who collect blood samples from patients at the Lister, New QEII and Hertford County hospitals, as well as local GP practices, came together in UNISON to move up to […]
Plans to cut around 500 jobs across Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) could damage patient care, warns UNISON as a voluntary severance scheme opens today. The trust, which runs the Addenbrooke’s and Rosie hospitals in Cambridge, has been told to slash support staff numbers by 15%. Government ministers have said they’re telling NHS […]
The government should make good on its pledge to stop NHS privatisation and halt the sell-off of hundreds of jobs at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, says UNISON today. Cleaners, porters, housekeepers and other facilities staff have taken more than 40 strike days since August to try to stop the trust’s plans […]
Healthcare support workers at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Foundation Trust will stage two three-day strikes from next week after years of being underpaid for their work, says UNISON today. More than 200 clinical support workers should be properly compensated for carrying out band 3 clinical tasks – such as blood monitoring, ECGs and patient […]
Health workers striking to stay in the NHS are up in arms after a leaked of the East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) chief executive surfaced suggesting the decision to privatise jobs had been made months ago, says UNISON today. The video – shot in May but only recently leaked to the Health […]
Senior managers at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT) have given themselves a discount on the hospital parking charges paid by all other employees, UNISON says today. The trust came under fire earlier this year for reintroducing staff parking charges, with more than 5,000 health workers and patients signing a UNISON petition branding […]
Hospital support staff from across Essex and Suffolk have written an open letter to the public today explaining that they have “no choice” but to strike to stop their jobs being sold out of the NHS, says their union UNISON. Cleaners, porters, caterers and other non-clinical support workers at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS […]
Hundreds of cleaners, porters, housekeepers and other Colchester Hospital support staff are to stage a week-long strike as they battle to keep their jobs in the NHS, says UNISON today. The walkout – from Monday 19 to Friday 23 August – will also hit several community sites run by East Suffolk and North Essex NHS […]
More than 300 staff at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) have voted to strike after years of not being paid the full rate for the job, says UNISON today. An overwhelming 96% of clinical support staff backed strike action in a formal ballot, says the union. The workers, employed at the […]
Hospital bosses want to let 150 staff go and mothball 150 beds across Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT), UNISON has warned today. The trust plans to launch a voluntary severance scheme* next week to cut the 150 ‘non-frontline clinical’ posts. In a meeting with union reps this week, trust leaders were not […]