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NHS patient transport staff protests outside Newham Hospital
INSULTED NHS patient transport staff said that they are being bullied into accepting inferior contracts as they demonstrated outside a hospital in London’s East End today.
The ambulance care assistants and patient transport service workers, who drive vulnerable people to and from hospital, rallied against their “poor treatment” outside Newham Hospital, run by Barts Health NHS Trust.
Their union, GMB, said that bosses should be ashamed of their conduct as it accused them of using a consultation on harmonising the employees with NHS terms and conditions to impose a new rotating shift pattern last week.
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