{"id":28091,"date":"2021-03-12T15:56:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=28091"},"modified":"2021-03-12T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:56:09","slug":"victory-against-nhs-fragmentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=28091","title":{"rendered":"Victory against NHS fragmentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>A victory against the increasing break-up of NHS services has been chalked up as bosses at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust have suspended plans to transfer workers to a wholly owned subsidiary (WOS) designed to avoid paying tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unite, Britain and Ireland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest union, said today (March 12) that the trust\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision was the culmination of a two-year campaign by staff, including industrial action, against increasing NHS fragmentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 1,000 estates\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 management, equipment maintenance, catering, portering, procurement and security staff at Frimley Park Hospital, Camberley; Wexham Park Hospital, Slough; and Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot would have been affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This decision not to proceed with the WOS comes as the role of privatisation in the NHS is under renewed focus with the scathing Public Accounts Committee report this week over the \u00c2\u014137 billion in government contacts to the private sector-led \u00e2\u20ac\u0098test and trace\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 system that has failed to live up to the prime minister\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s boast that it would be \u00e2\u20ac\u0098world beating\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unite regional officer Jesika Parmar said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is a great victory for all those fed-up with the continuing fragmentation of NHS services and a sterling tribute to the solidarity the workers at the trust have shown over two years of vigorous campaigning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe warmly welcome the decision of the trust\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s board of directors, given that the last year has shown what a unified and hardworking NHS can achieve in the face of a global pandemic,&#8221; she added. &#8220;We look forward to a constructive dialogue with the trust\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s management in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members had voted overwhelmingly in 2019 that they have no wish to be employed by a WOS designed to avoid paying tax. They were also concerned that their pay and employment conditions would be seriously eroded by such a plan,&#8221; Parmar continued. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite continues to be strongly against the formation of these entities in England, which, we believe, could lead to a Pandora\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s box of Carillion-type meltdowns \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with knock-on effects for patient services and jobs.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Frimley trust provides NHS hospital services for about 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. Unite has 220 members at the trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Shaun Noble<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A victory against the increasing break-up of NHS services has been chalked up as bosses at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust have suspended plans to transfer workers to a wholly owned subsidiary (WOS) designed to avoid paying tax. 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