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This is the first time any trade union for doctors other than the British Medical Association has been nationally recognised by the NHS. [ 4 ] In 1974 the association's rules were amended to extend membership rights to all senior hospital doctors, and its members voted for a new name, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, to ...
The Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association (CPHVA) is a Trade union and professional association for health care staff in the UK and Ireland. It is part of Unite the Union. Its 18,500 members include health visitors, school nurses, nursery nurses and other community nurses working in primary care. [1]
The union does not have any branches, and it does not negotiate collectively. Its chief function is to provide support and protection for individual managers. [1] In the 2015 NHS pay negotiations it urged its members to reject the government's pay deal because it was unfair in targeting senior staff while leaving the pay of doctors “untouched”.
The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom which has more than 560,000 members. Its members work in nearly all industrial sectors, in retail, security, schools, distribution, the utilities, social care, the National Health Service (NHS), ambulance service and local government.
Unison (stylised as UNISON) is a British trade union. Along with Unite, Unison is one of the two largest trade unions in the United Kingdom, with over 1.2 million members who work predominantly in public services, including local government, education, health and outsourced services.
It underwent a series of mergers which formed the Manufacturing, Science and Finance union, Amicus [5] and ultimately Unite. [6] Initially the MPU focused on providing trade union services to GPs in their dealings with local administration of the National Health Insurance scheme, and arguing the case for the extension of the scheme to everyone.
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Staff and Associate Specialists Committee(SASC) – for doctors in the non consultant career grades. Branch of Practice committees have a majority of BMA members but may also include non-members. All members are elected. These UK committees are mirrored across the devolved nations of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.