Influencing service reviews and changes in your workplace: a guide for BAPO members

(25/05/2010) Many health providers and services throughout the UK are currently subject to proposals to save money or restructure.

Where services are no longer meeting the needs of patients, UNISON is supportive of considered re-structuring based on broad consultation with service users and staff. However, many of these reviews and restructuring programmes appear to be knee-jerk reactions to the current financial climate seem in some instances to be used as a cloak for cuts.

 UNISON believes that ill-considered service cuts based on financial rather than service-need will result in long-term detriment to the health service and that the people who are most likely to be affected are the most vulnerable groups of people within our society.

As health staff brace themselves against the effects of reduced budgets, vacancy freezes and cuts to jobs and services, there has never been a more critical time for prosthetic and orthotic staff to insist on involvement in the review and restructuring of the services you provide.

UNISON has developed guidance to assist BAPO members to influence service reviews and give you an idea of the types of questions you could be raising with your Trust managers where cuts or changes to services are proposed.

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