Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
NHS Direct is proposing to cut hundreds of jobs and close over a fifth of its call centres to help balance the books. It is proposing to close 12 of its smaller call centres, while expanding others, and cutting nearly 800 posts. Set up in 1997, the nurse-led telephone helpline provides a 24-hour advice service for patients across England. The 12 call centres due to close are in Doncaster, York, Cambridge, Scunthorpe, Chester, Bolton, Preston, Chorley, Southport, Croydon, Brighton and Kensington. Of the 789 job losses, 573 would be lost through redundancy with the remaining 216 going through 'natural turnover' over the next 18 months. Staff are being consulted about the changes over the next three months before a final decision is made. Plans for job losses are coupled with the expansion of of some NHS Direct call centres creating 376 new posts. NHS Direct chairman, David Edmonds, said: 'Changes of this scale will impact on staff and we will work with staff side partners to minimise the impact.' He said NHS Direct had a key role to play in helping to transform England's healthcare but it had to ensure the service offered 'excellent clinical quality for patients and value for money for our commissioners and taxpayers'.
Eurofound (2006), NHS Direct, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 63510, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/63510.
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