Agenda for Change Consultation

RCM comments on AfC agreement

An agreement has been reached today at the NHS Staff Council on the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook, which covers the Agenda for Change contracts used by almost one million NHS staff in England. They will come into effect from 1 April 2013.

Commenting on the agreement Jon Skewes, director for policy, employment relations and communications at the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), said: “Midwives voted in overwhelming numbers in favour of this review of AfC.

“The RCM believes that this agreement reached today will help to secure UK wide bargaining in the NHS. It will also fend off the threat of local pay and conditions.

“The RCM will now be working to implement the agreement through partnership at local level.”

For further information please contact the RCM Press Office on 020 7312 3456, pressofficer@rcm.org.uk. 

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