{"id":473554,"date":"2026-03-13T14:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473554\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T14:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:27:14","slug":"unison-call-for-urgent-meeting-over-st-andrews-hospital-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473554\/","title":{"rendered":"Unison call for &#8216;urgent&#8217; meeting over St Andrew&#8217;s hospital staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last month, the BBC revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5y4nyxwd7eo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">15 staff members had been arrested<\/a> since October 2024 following allegations of rape, ill-treatment and neglect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Patients, relatives and whistleblowers described a culture of abuse at the unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ten people remain under suspicion and have been bailed or released pending inquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Andrew&#8217;s chief executive, Dr Vivienne McVey, announced her departure in an email to staff on Monday afternoon &#8211; in a move that Samari described as &#8220;deeply disappointing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think it sends a really bad signal to our members, to patients and service users, and their families,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are shocked by the failure to take any responsibility or accountability by the chief executive who, instead of taking that accountability and responsibility for management failures, emphasised instead how she was immensely proud of her time at St Andrews in her parting note.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, the BBC revealed 15 staff members had been arrested since October 2024 following allegations of rape,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-473554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473554","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=473554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}