Healthcare
Recent documents
Primary Care News - Spring 2009
(03/04//09) This edition includes the latest on 'Transforming Community Services' reforms.
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Primary care is changing - leaflet
Primary Care is changing. Your job, pay & NHS pension may be affected. This useful leaflet includes a UNISON application form.Acrobat PDF (1353874 bytes)
Privatisation in Primary Care fact sheet
This UNISON Positively Public fact sheet looks at the reforms shaping privatisation in GP practices and primary care and the concerns for services and staff. A7071.pdf
Primary Care
UNISON is leading the way in campaigning for staff working in primary care. We believe that many of the reforms being pushed by the government hold major risks, not just to staff terms and conditions and job security, but for the continuity and quality of healthcare to patients and the future of the NHS as a publicly owned and operated resource.The launch of the Department of Health's Transforming Community Services (TCS) programme in early 2009 has seen the government pushing for PCTs to adopt new organisational structures to provide their services - including social enterprises and private sector companies. Staff face the possibility of being transferred out of the NHS.
If you're not already a UNISON member speak to your local UNISON representative about how joining can ensure your voice is heard in the workplace.
Primary care latest
Transforming Community Services
Find all our latest campaign materials and updates in response to the government's Transforming Community Services programme herePersonal health budgets: 68 pilot sites selected
The Department of Health has provisionally selected 68 pilot sites in England, offering personal health budgets for NHS services. UNISON will be demanding that the pilots are subject to a rigorous evaluation. A UNISON guidance briefing on personal health budgets is now available.UNISON slams new Co-operation and Competition Panel for putting competition before patient care
UNISON has slammed a consultation on the new Co-operation and Competition Panel for putting plans to increase competition above patient care. The Panel has been set up to make judgements on complaints from private companies and NHS bodies claiming they are being discriminated against in the NHS market.< Back | More >
CONTACT DETAILS
• Karen Jennings is the head of the UNISON Healthcare team:
UNISON Healthcare
1 Mabledon Place
London WC1H 9AJ
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• Karen Jennings is the head of the UNISON Healthcare team:
UNISON Healthcare
1 Mabledon Place
London WC1H 9AJ
Send us an email
How can you keep updated on changes in primary care?
Join our Primary Care Contacts e-network - If you are a UNISON member, representative or branch contact in a primary care site and would like to receive updates on the latest national developments, please email your contact and workplace details to:
Send us your details
Join our Primary Care Contacts e-network - If you are a UNISON member, representative or branch contact in a primary care site and would like to receive updates on the latest national developments, please email your contact and workplace details to:
Send us your details
UNISON, 1 Mabledon Place, London WC1H 9AJ. Telephone: 0845 355 0845.
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