{"id":276605,"date":"2026-02-10T08:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/276605\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:44:10","slug":"phlebotomist-union-rejects-offer-to-end-long-running-nhs-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/276605\/","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":276606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-276605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}