{"id":185990,"date":"2025-10-08T17:36:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/185990\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T17:36:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:36:25","slug":"unison-strike-off-as-dorset-hospitals-abandon-outsourcing-jobs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/185990\/","title":{"rendered":"Unison strike off as Dorset hospitals abandon outsourcing jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Workers including caterers, cleaners and porters had voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in September but NHS England issued new guidance , external<\/a> that “new subsidiaries involving the transfer of NHS staff will now only be approved in a limited number of circumstances”.<\/p>\n

Unison general secretary Christina McAnea said: “The decision by the trusts to halt these plans will bring welcome relief to staff who feared their pay and conditions were going to be worsened.<\/p>\n

“All NHS trusts need to follow this example and immediately halt plans to outsource staff. Those that don’t should expect to be met with a wave of opposition and industrial action.”<\/p>\n

Staff had mounted protests throughout the summer and 97% had voted in favour of the most recent industrial action.<\/p>\n

Siobhan Harrington, chief executive of University Hospitals Dorset, and Matthew Bryant, chief executive of Dorset County Hospital and Dorset HealthCare, said in their statement: “We know our unions do not support the proposal.<\/p>\n

“We put huge value on the work of our staff in these services, and we will continue our discussions with colleagues and unions to find a way forward to provide the most effective and efficient services for our patients.”<\/p>\n

Minister of State for Health and Social Care Karin Smyth, when questioned earlier this year , external<\/a>about the proposal to use subsidiaries, said: “The government expects that any outsourced services are delivered by trusts in a way that improves quality, ensures greater stability and longer-term investment in the workforce.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Workers including caterers, cleaners and porters had voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in September but NHS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-185990","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}