Why insourcing isn ’ t always a win

On the final day of UNISON’s health conference, delegates heard a series of debates on defending the NHS against privatisation. Tam Hiddleston for the service group executive warned that, while “we invariably think of insourcing as a positive,” some insourcing “is about private operators being brought into the NHS.” UNISON needs to be very careful to monitor “any wider implications for Agenda for Change pay and conditions,” he continued. Chris from London noted: “What’s the point of insourcing people and you just change their uniforms?” Moving a motion on mega trusts for the Eastern region, Glen Carrington (pictured above) highlighted the rising problems facing staff in such trusts in his region. NHS England is pursuing trust mergers in an attempt to save money, “but after 14 long years of Tory cuts, has anyone ever looked to see what the impact is on staff? “The chances of starting a shift in Cromer and ending up in London happens all too often,” said Mr Carrington. “Don’t let anyone tell you big is always better.” In another motion, conference heard of staff left devastated at learning that their jobs were being outsourced. Yet even as outsourced services have been shown to cause major problems, it is an approach that continues, and causes even more problems – not least in the increase of a “two or three or four-tier workforces” as contracts are passed from one company to another. That situation is a “national scandal that the Tory go...
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