{"id":2248,"date":"2014-11-18T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2014-11-18T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T12:00:34","slug":"time-rebuild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=2248","title":{"rendered":"A time to rebuild"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday (Monday November 17) David Whiting, Yorkshire Ambulance Service chief executive resigned \u00e2\u20ac\u0098with immediate effect\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 340 ambulance staff, who have held strikes against the changes to shift patterns and meal breaks, have welcomed the news.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Terry Cunliffe, Unite regional officer said he would be seeking an early meeting when the new chief executive was appointed \u00e2\u20ac\u0098to open a new chapter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for ambulance staff and the public.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is not a time for recrimination, but a time to rebuild the service for the benefit of the patients and staff,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Mr Cunliffe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe see this as a new chapter opening up and Unite is determined to play a constructive role in this renewal process.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Under Mr Whiting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leadership Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ambulance members have held a series of strikes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The dispute began when bosses derecognised Unite as a union representing staff, after the union raised concerns about patient safety in early 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Patient safety was being put at risk by plans to send semi-skilled emergency care assistants to 999 call-outs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI would also like to pay great tribute to our members who have shown enormous solidarity and resolve during very difficult times over the last two years,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 added Terry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (Monday November 17) David Whiting, Yorkshire Ambulance Service chief executive resigned \u00e2\u20ac\u0098with immediate effect\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. &nbsp; Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 340 ambulance staff, who have held strikes against the changes to shift patterns and meal breaks, have welcomed the news. &nbsp; Terry Cunliffe, Unite regional officer said he would be seeking an early meeting when the new chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[161,29],"wps_subtitle":"Yorkshire Ambulance Service chief executive resigns","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}