{"id":17187,"date":"2019-02-06T15:38:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T15:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=17187"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:57:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:57:44","slug":"fee-hike-petition-hcpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=17187","title":{"rendered":"Fee hike petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A 38,000-signature petition protesting at the proposed 18 per cent fee hike for registration to the Health &amp; Care Professions Council (HCPC) will be handed into the council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chief executive on Monday (February 11).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The petition, organised by Unite calling for the planned increase to be scrapped will be handed over to HCPC chief executive Marc Seale at the HCPC headquarters at Park House, 184 Kennington Park Rd, London SE11 4BU at\u00c2\u00a0noon on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe majority of the 38,000 who have signed this petition are health professionals,&#8221; Unite lead professional officer for regulation Jane Beach. &#8220;It is a resounding testament to the outrage those professionals feel at this extortionate fee hike.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite, which has 100,000 members in the health service, is calling for the HCPC to reconsider this unjust 18 per cent rise as this will cause increased financial hardship to already struggling and dedicated professionals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhen we hand in the petition to HCPC chief executive Marc Seale on Monday we hope this will drive home the depth of anger that is felt by the professions covered by HCPC,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The increase should be scrapped.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe have consulted widely with our members who have to register with the HCPC in order that they can work professionally \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and they have given the proposed increase a resounding\u00c2\u00a0 thumbs down.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite has argued that the increase proposed from October 2019 is another financial\u00c2\u00a0 blow to hard-pressed\u00c2\u00a0 NHS staff, such as biomedical scientists, paramedics and speech and language therapists, who have seen the fees increase by 40 per cent since 2014.<br \/>\nIn its response to the HCPC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s consultation, Unite called on the organisation to \u00e2\u20ac\u0098seriously reconsider\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the proposed rise from \u00c2\u014190 to \u00c2\u0141106 a year, as NHS pay has stagnated in real terms and the cost of living has raced ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 38,000-signature petition protesting at the proposed 18 per cent fee hike for registration to the Health &amp; Care Professions Council (HCPC) will be handed into the council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chief executive on Monday (February 11). &nbsp; The petition, organised by Unite calling for the planned increase to be scrapped will be handed over to HCPC chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1097,1096,1098],"wps_subtitle":"Unite to hand in petition at \u00e2\u20ac\u0098extortionate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 fee hike by HCPC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25568,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17187\/revisions\/25568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}