UNISON is keeping up its campaign to defend the NHS with the release of a new guide to help campaigners.
The guide offers help and advice on working within the new set-up to influence key decisions about cuts or privatisation.
UNISON policy officer Guy Collis says: “Although the NHS increasingly resembles a complex mess of new organisations and existing ones, there is scope to get involved – perhaps more than ever before.”
The guide shows where there are opportunities for UNISON members and members of the public to get involved in foundation trusts at a number of different levels, how some of the work of clinical commissioning groups might be influenced, and how the role of local authorities in the NHS can be shaped – both by citizens and by councillors.
Mr Collis continues: “The post-Health Act system is still taking shape, but this guide seeks to equip those that want to get involved with more detail and some useful sources of information and support.”
Click here to download the guide.