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A4C, Well there seems to be a few misconceptions about whats what and whos getting what, the West Midlands Ambulance service were originally banded Techs - 5 and Paras - 6, however the management were gagged by the SHA and as yet to date it has not been published; officially that is.
This match was done in house after all the verifications had been done. It was then further sent to an Individual hospital trust to be verified and they at the same time were having their own process verified by an outside agency ( so more verified then a verified thing on verification day) This in turn returned from this verification as a tech 5 and Para 6. (Infact this figure has been the outcome for over 30% of Ambulance services) And in full agreement with the original verification that was done in house. All cut and squared away you would think? Unfortunately this is were the story changes Our bosses were only being polite to inform the SHA prior to going public I do not believe they were under any commitment to the SHA to inform them prior to going public, when they were like so many other services 30% infact GAGGED by the SHA and told not to publish the outcome. This Gagging procedure from the SHA contradicts the A4C guidelines and therefore in the whole spectrum of things makes the entire system a charade. The A4C was set up so that it would be a full impartial system so that people working within the NHS would be rewarded for what they did. The gagging process therefore takes away the Impartiality and therefore undermines the whole process and the time and money spent on it.
The SHA then requested 2 further verifications to the band matches? Under this agreement of band matching the people that do it are supposed to be TOTALLY IMPARTUAL so that a fair and logical outcome can be reached. So the SHA had two other ambulance services re-verify the outcomes (hummm thats impartial NOT) the results from that were never made clear and I would only be surmising so I wont but I do know that the staff representatives doing the verification did not take part as it was out of the A4C guidelines, and the Managerial side were forced to do it. So the process was not followed whatever the outcome.
So we have had a ballot for a possible strike awaiting the outcome, but the new bandings are being looked at for the West Mids and that is a mix of 4, 5 and 6
New Techs and Drivers Untrained = 4, qualified Techs = 5, new Paras = 5, and qualified Paras = 6. . Time will tell. As for strike action well it never helped us the last time. Took some of use years to pay of the credit cards and debts. Other alternatives? I just dont know this government and the Conservatives have learned a valuable lesson and thats the divide and conquer, The media would possible be on your side for a short time but look how the stitched the firemen, You can see it know Paras refuse 29k payments, they wont add that 25% of that is what almost every person who works in the private sector and nurses have been getting as unsociable hours. Or that we have been paid peanuts with an ever increasing work load and skills base, or the fact that we work 365 days or the fact that we have to deal with the shitty end of the stick all day and every day. If we going to do it we need to kick them in the bollocks all together, the military couldnt cope with over 1400 jobs on average in the West Mids alone.