Health Care
Primary Care Survey
UNISON wants to find out about staff working in primary care. We have launched a survey on our website and would like as many people as possible to respond. Please take part in the survey and you can also enter our prize draw for the chance to win a Roberts DAB digital radio.

Link to a web surveyPrimary Care survey

Primary Care

Profound changes are taking place in the NHS. Across England, NHS organisations have been told by the Government that they have to rapidly pay off their debts, often acquired through PFI and LIFT, and are having to cut jobs and services in order to meet this target. At the same time, the government is pushing through a huge range of untested proposals into primary care. These reforms are guided by the frameworks, targets and deadlines set out in Commissioning a Patient-led NHS and the health and social care White Paper 'Our Health, Our Care, Our Say'. UNISON believes that these reforms hold major risks, not just to the employment rights and security of members, but for the future of the NHS as a publicly owned and operated resource, providing healthcare free to all UK residents.

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Social Enterprises in Primary Care

UNISON has commissioned research from Durham University to look into the impact of social enterprises in primary care.

Your local primary care trust - Our primary concern: UNISON campaign pack, Summer 2007

(09/07/07) UNISON’s primary care campaign materials are designed to assist in your local campaigning, whether you are intending an immediate, broad campaign on the general theme of reform and marketisation, or to influence local decision-making on particular areas of service provision. This campaign pack is a compliation of guidance briefings aimed at branches and activists and is also designed as a resource pack to accompany 'Your Local Primary Care Trust, Our Primary Concern: A Two Day Course for UNISON Activists' - a course created by UNISON's Learning and Organising Services. Download the complete pack here:
Primary Care Campaign Pack - Summer 2007: A5541.pdf

Primary Care Reforms Glossary

(09/07/07) A UNISON breifing containing easy to understand definitions of some of the major issues that are impacting on primary care services. Download it here: Primary Care Reforms Glossary: A5438.pdf

Facing restructuring in Primary Care: guidance briefing

(09/07/07) You may want to use this briefing and checklist if your workplace is facing restructuring. This briefing also includes information on your employer’s legal duty to undertake consultation on any proposed changes. Download it here:Facing Restructuring in Primary Care: A5439.pdf

Contracting Primary Care Services: guidance briefing

(09/07/07) This UNISON briefing explains the main contracts used for commissioning primary medical services. Download it here:Contracting in Primary Care: A5440.pdf

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CONTACT DETAILS
• Karen Jennings is the head of the UNISON Healthcare team:
UNISON Healthcare
1 Mabledon Place
London WC1H 9AJ
Email: healthcare@unison.co.uk
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:
primarycarecontacts@unison.co.uk
Primary care documents

Primary Care News – April 2008

(27/03/08) This special Health Conference edition of ‘Primary Care News’ contains updates members on key news and events, as well as on UNISON’s ongoing primary care campaign.

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Primary Care News - January 2008

Read the latest news on changes occuring in primary care and UNISON's ongoing campaign for quality services.
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In the Interests of Patients? - Report

Gives an account of the changes introduced since 2002 which, taken together, are creating a competitive commercial market within the NHS. It explains why UNISON believes that this undermines key principles which underpin the NHS, why it will be inefficient and costly and why it risks undermining quality of care.
Link to a PDF document on this siteIn the Interests of Patients? - Report