Fórsa will ballot health and social care professionals (HSCPs) for industrial action if the health department proceeds with the recruitment of a chief nursing officer (CNO) on the basis of the current job description, and prior to appointing a specific HSCP advisor to the department.
The CNO post, which is currently being advertised, would subsume all other health and social care professions under the authority of a chief nursing officer.
Fórsa will not allow independent health professions to become a subset of nursing, as they would under this propos.
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Community organisations, charities, trade unions and academics have written to the First and deputy First Minister and other party leaders urging them to ensure that a new Committee established under the New Decade, New Approach (NDNA) agreement is the final stage of agreeing a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland.
It is expected that the Assembly will set up the Committee on Monday and the community groups want party leaders to guarantee it will deliver the long-awaited Bill of Rights, originally promised in the Belfast / Good Friday Agreement in 1998. C|lick here for more News
Other News:
Cleaning staff striking at University Hospital Waterford
Cleaning staff at University Hospital Waterford are taking to the picket lines this morning.
Around 125 members of the Unite trade union are striking in a row over changes to their working conditions without consultation.
Momentum Support took over the cleaning contract at the hospital from ISS last September.
Commenting on today’s strike action, Unite Regional Officer Tony Kelly accused Momentum of seeking to impose changes to working conditions without consultation: Read more here
