{"id":290211,"date":"2026-02-10T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290211\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:50:09","slug":"phlebotomist-union-rejects-offer-to-end-long-running-nhs-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290211\/","title":{"rendered":"Phlebotomist union rejects offer to end long-running NHS strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Claire Radley, director of people from the trust, told the BBC she was &#8220;really surprised&#8221; and &#8220;a bit disappointed because the two offers were developed collaboratively with the phlebotomists  and Unison&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Radley said the union was now asking the trust to pay them as a band 3 without going through the independent panel and want to revert back to the providing the service in the same building as before the strike, rather than in outpatients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;During the industrial action we have learned lots about the provision of phlebotomy services,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have developed a model which means we are getting patients out of the hospital much earlier as a result of the bloods being available much earlier and it is a better outpatient experience,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust said it is going to consider its position and respond to Unison within a the next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claire Radley, director of people from the trust, told the BBC she was &#8220;really surprised&#8221; and &#8220;a bit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-290211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}