Jessica Best, a housekeeper at Dorset County Hospital, said the move would be bad for staff at a time when morale was already “very low”.<\/p>\n
“We’re very proud to work for the NHS,” she said, adding: “It feels like that’s being taken away.”<\/p>\n
Frank Goodwin, a security officer at the hospital, agreed.<\/p>\n
“It’s making me feel like we’re second class citizens,” said the 39-year-old.<\/p>\n
“You’d never take the nurses or the doctors out and try to fund them separately, and find a way to make them not part of the NHS.<\/p>\n
“I’m part of the NHS because I care, I want to work in a sector where I’m bringing something to society. I don’t want to be just some contractor.”<\/p>\n
Ms Best said there were also fears over what it would mean for their contracts. <\/p>\n
“We’re very concerned about our terms and conditions,” said the 47-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessica Best, a housekeeper at Dorset County Hospital, said the move would be bad for staff at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-41585","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\/41585","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=41585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}