
FOUR-HUNDRED workers at Wishaw’s University Hospital will be transferred from the private contractor Serco to NHS Lanarkshire, in what the public sector union Unison has described as “a major victory in the fight to end outsourcing of hospital services”.
This follows a "PFI bleeds the NHS dry" campaign by the Lanarkshire Health branch of Unison, which aims to end private contracts for public services at NHS hospitals.