Southwest NHS pay cartel about to unravel
I’ve blogged variously about the South West Pay, Terms and Conditions Consortium (SWC or ‘cartel’) that was formed to try to bully NHS workers in the south-west into accepting worsened […]
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SW NHS pay cartel reveals its poisonous nature
Just occasionally, you come across something so remarkable that it’s almost hard to believe it’s actually true. I’ve written many times about the ‘South West Pay, Terms and Conditions Consortium’ […]
NHS workers lose £647 in year 1 of ‘efficiency’ – FTN wants freedom to cut more without negotiation
I’ve spent the last few days looking through the oral testimony given to the Commons Health Select Committee on 13 November, as well as through the lengthy written testimony given […]
Poole NHS Trust continues shameful response to FOI requests about the SW cartel
Poole Hospital NHS Trust, which acts as the lead for the South-West NHS pay cartel, continues to act disgracefully in its responses – or more accurately, non-responses – to Freedom […]
What the SW NHS cartel REALLY thinks about staff, unions – and Treasury ‘theft’
I’ve come across an interesting email among the FOI disclosures from the member Trusts of the South-West NHS pay cartel. I believe that this is the first time that it […]
Poole NHS Trust breaks own legal advice to dodge FOI request
As I’ve been following the electronic and paper trails around the South West Pay, Terms and Conditions cartel (SWC), trying to find out some of the truths about their aims […]
The smoking gun: govt involved in formation of SW NHS pay cartel ‘national pilot project’
Since I first learned, and started writing, about the South-West NHS Pay, Terms and Conditions Consortium (from here ‘the cartel’ or SWC), I’ve been convinced that the government was involved […]
Devon NHS trust misleads to try to block FOI re SW pay cartel
Devon Partnership NHS Trust has tried to abuse the ‘commercial interest’ exemption in the Freedom of Information Act, and to point to ‘public’ information on its websites that is not […]
A rock and a hard place: cartels, low morale, FOIs – and government strategy on the NHS
I had an interesting chat with my wife last night. She’s a nurse, and I was giving her the latest update on the government-sanctioned cartel of NHS trusts in the […]