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Last week, the regulator NHS Improvement told NHS trusts in England to stop setting up wholly owned subsidiaries until further guidance is issued. In a ballot of […]

This whole policy has been a damaging distraction. Valuable resources that could have gone on improving care have been wasted.

The staff , who work in roles including cleaning, catering and portering are employed by Bolton iFM – a wholly-owned subsidiary of the trust. Staff have […]

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys trust becomes latest to abandon plans to transfer staff to private wholly owned subsidiary company

UNISON warns that outsourcing hospital staff will create two-tier workforce as trust starts a month of consultations

There was no lying on sun-loungers for UNISON or many of our members involved in key struggles at work

Packed Teesside meeting highlights health staff’s anger and worry of plans to hand them over to a private company

The union started sending out ballot papers today after local health bosses decided not to pay the wage increase agreed nationally for NHS workers, which would be worth nearly £2,000 this year […]

“It should be an embarrassment to Bolton iFM and the trust that hospital staff are receiving poverty pay,” commented regional organiser Tim Ellis […]

Trust announced that it has scrapped plans to create a wholly-owned subsidiary after angry response at staff meetings

Our union will stand by all of those striking today, and anyone else who ends up in the same position. We need to knock back the misguided and dangerous Subco principle before it takes root.