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Patient transport members vote on industrial action over two-tier workforce
UNISON members who transport patients in greater Manchester are being balloted for potential strike action over pay differences which see some of them paid up to £2.40 an hour less, get fewer breaks and receive less sick pay.
Around 100 staff at Greater Manchester Patient Transport Services were hired when the service was outsourced to Arriva between 2013 and 2016, and employed on the inferior terms and conditions.
This means that a third of the services staff are paid less than colleagues who were employed before the service was privatised, or after it was brought back into the public sector – a situation UNISON says i...
Source: UNISON Health care news - February 14, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: Tony Braisby Tags: News ambulance service ambulances health care NHS outsourcing patient transport services Source Type: news
European Medical Device Regulation: The Compliance Advantage
Nobody is in any doubt that the new European Medical Device Regulation (EU MDR) is on the agenda of compliance professionals in the medical devices industry. But is it far enough up on their priority list?
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Early compliance to the European Medical Device Regulation—the outline of which was finally published in the Official Journal of the European Union on May 5, 2017—is crucial if manufacturers are to maintain access to EU markets, which in aggregate are economically larger than the United States.
The MDR replaces both the previous Medical Device Directive (93/42/ EEC) and the Active Implantabl...
Source: MDDI - February 12, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Peter Rose Tags: Regulatory and Compliance Source Type: news
University of South Wales cleaners win tribunal case
Cleaners at the University of South Wales have won thousands of pounds in compensation after a private company unlawfully deducted money from their wages over 11 months.
The nine women (pictured), supported by UNISON, are employed by KGB Cleaning to clean the university’s ATRiuM in Cardiff.
Having worked at the Caerleon site up until its closure in July 2016, they were transferred to another site under an agreement that their travel time from Caerleon would be paid. However, KGB Cleaning reneged on this in March 2017.
After a two-day hearing, an employment tribunal found the company guilty of unlawful deduction from wag...
Source: UNISON Health care news - February 12, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News Cymru Wales higher education Source Type: news
Police outsource digital forensic work to unaccredited labs
Market for data analysis called a ‘race to the bottom’, with trials failing because of evidence issuesMore than a dozen police forces have outsourced digital forensic investigative work to unaccredited private laboratories in the past year, at a time whena series of rape cases have been abandoned because of problems with digital evidence.The collapse of four trials within two months because digital forensic evidence had not been shared with defence teams has shaken confidence in the criminal justice system andtriggered a review of thousands of rape cases by the Crown Prosecution Service.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 12, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Hannah Devlin Science correspondent Tags: Police Rape and sexual assault Law Science Smartphones UK news Metropolitan police Society Greater Manchester Mobile phones Technology Crown Prosecution Service Source Type: news
Exclusive: NHS England withdraws team embedded at Capita
NHS England has withdrawn a team of senior experts that were embedded at a service outsourced to Capita amid continued concerns about the unit’s performance, HSJ can reveal.
Source: HSJ - February 9, 2018 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Wigan hospital workers vote for strike ballot
UNISON members working at three hospitals in Lancashire are on course for industrial action over plans to outsource their jobs to a new company, set-up and owned by the NHS trust, in May.
Members at the Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS foundation trust voted to reject the plans and ask the union for a strike ballot by 93% in a 79% turn-out.
Nearly 900 NHS staff who work in estates and facilities across the trust’s three hospitals are threatened by the plan to outsource them to the wholly owned subsidiary company, WWL Solutions.
They are worried that their terms and conditions could be cut, that new starters will get inf...
Source: UNISON Health care news - February 5, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: Tony Braisby Tags: Article News health care North West South West Source Type: news
UNISON ’s women’s conference opens in Liverpool
Speaking at the annual women’s conference in Liverpool today (Friday), UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “In recent months a lid has been lifted on a sordid and seedy world, one we hoped we’d left behind. A world where rich and powerful men see women as objects, play things, and pawns in their quest for control.
“From the dressing rooms of Hollywood, to the corridors of Westminster, we’ve heard horrific tales of abuse, exploitation and denigration. A depressing picture where name-calling and online abuse are shrugged off as banter, and swept under the carpet as too tough to tackle.
“The complete disre...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - February 2, 2018 Category: Food Science Authors: Siobhan Cooley Tags: Press release 2018 Women's Conference Liverpool Source Type: news
' Mixed ' Outcomes, Costs for VA ' s Outsourced PCI and CABG ' Mixed ' Outcomes, Costs for VA ' s Outsourced PCI and CABG
How to rate VA-purchased community care for PCI or CABG? Current metrics don ' t measure up, researchers conclude. Of note, one kind of center showed a mortality increase, another beat the rest on cost.Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - January 10, 2018 Category: Cardiology Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
The Pharma Business Model: How to Avoid the Innovator ' s Dilemma
Healthcare is the largest sector in the world – around three times larger than banking – yet, in spite of the cutting-edge medical breakthroughs, it lags behind in other forms of innovation.Pharma continues to spend heavily on R&D (around $140bn a year), which results in 30-40 new drug approvals each year, a return on investment that is not as strong as one might expect for the investment. The industry is an example of a ‘business-as-we’ve-always-done-it’ approach. The experiences of other disrupted industries may be relevant to pharma, such as:
Continuing ‘business as usual’ and failing to innovate ...
Source: EyeForPharma - January 4, 2018 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Dr Andree Bates Source Type: news
The Pharma Business Model: How to Avoid the Innovators Dilemma
Healthcare is the largest sector in the world – around three times larger than banking – yet, in spite of the cutting-edge medical breakthroughs, it lags behind in other forms of innovation.Pharma continues to spend heavily on R&D (around $140bn a year), which results in 30-40 new drug approvals each year, a return on investment that is not as strong as one might expect for the investment. The industry is an example of a ‘business-as-we’ve-always-done-it’ approach. The experiences of other disrupted industries may be relevant to pharma, such as:
Continuing ‘business as usual’ and failing to innovate ...
Source: EyeForPharma - January 4, 2018 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Dr Andree Bates Source Type: news
Complying with ISO 13485:2016 & #039;s New Expectations for Supplier Management
One of the main changes to ISO 13485:2016 “Medical devices -- Quality management systems – Requirements for regulatory purposes” pertaining to suppliers is the “increased emphasis on use of a risk-based approach to supplier management,” Ron Schmitz, president of Grand Avenue Software, told MD+DI. “Medical device companies are increasingly required to not only analyze supplier-related risks during supplier qualification, but also to monitor their suppliers’ performance and feed the monitoring results back to a requalification process.”
Grand Avenue Software will be exhibiting at Booth #1612 at MD&M W...
Source: MDDI - December 18, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Daphne Allen Tags: MD & M West (Anaheim) Regulatory and Compliance Source Type: news
NuVasive to Get SafePassage and Boost Services Strategy
NuVasive said it will acquire SafePassage, a provider of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) services, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition will solidify NuVasive's position as the largest provider of outsourced IONM services, the San Diego-based spine company said.
The deal comes at the end of a challenging year for NuVasive. The company has experienced significant management turnover this year, and the company is currently engaged in an ugly legal battle with competitor Alphatec. NuVasive says former exec Patrick Miles schemed for more than a year to disparage the company before jumping ship, but A...
Source: MDDI - December 13, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Amanda Pedersen Tags: Medical Device Business Source Type: news
NuVasive acquires IONM provider SafePassage
NuVasive Inc. (NSDQ:NUVA) said today it inked a deal to acquire intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring service provider SafePassage for an undisclosed amount.
NuVasive said the addition of SafePassage to its NuVasive Clinical Services make it the largest provider of outsourced IONM services with a total of 550 neurophysiologists and oversight physicians in the US.
“The acquisition of SafePassage advances the NuVasive services strategy and expands our ability to transform how spine procedures are approached, measured and valued from a clinical and economic perspective. As the only spine company in the world wi...
Source: Mass Device - December 12, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Business/Financial News Mergers & Acquisitions Neurological Patient Monitoring Nuvasive Source Type: news
How product development outsourcing can make your medtech amazing
In today’s medical device market, more and more companies are using outsourcing as a product development strategy.
Stuart Karten, Karten Design
[Image from Unsplash]There has been a fundamental shift in the way companies develop medtech products because of advances in digital technology, medical industry economics and public policy – such as the Affordable Care Act’s withholding of 1% of a hospitals’ total Medicare reimbursements, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Hospitals must earn the money back each year with high patient satisfaction scores. Medtech products play a significant role in...
Source: Mass Device - November 30, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Chris Newmarker Tags: Research & Development DeviceTalks West kartendesign Source Type: news
School support staff have borne the brunt of funding cuts
Over a thousand parents, teachers, school support staff and head teachers attended the school cuts lobby of Parliament on Tuesday, to bring the message to MPs that 88% of our schools are seriously underfunded.
The fantasy that emanates from the government – that there are huge efficiency savings still to be made, and that it is possible to make further cuts without having an impact on children’s education – is increasingly derisible.
While, understandably, teachers have been in the spotlight, it is school support staff that have borne the brunt of funding cuts in recent years.
Since 2013, teaching assistant numbers i...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - October 27, 2017 Category: Food Science Authors: Jon Richards Tags: Article Blogs education services schools Source Type: news
