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Section 5
employee handbook
and accurate. Each department is responsible for ensuring their own
page is updated regularly and used to the best advantage for the
healthcare group and its patients.
Information and Consultation: Consultation (meaning the exchange
of views and establishment of dialogue between the Employees’
representatives and the Hospital) takes place on decisions relating to:
• Probable development of the activities of the organisation.
• Probable development of employment within the organisation or
any measures envisaged, in particular where there is a threat to
employment.
Consultation shall be with a view to reaching agreement on such
decisions, and complies with the Hospital’s obligations under
Employees (Provision of Information and Consultation) Act 2006 and
the Health Services Information and Consultation Agreement 2006.
External Communications
Communications with the Media: Enquires from the media in relation
to any aspect of the Hospital’s activities, policies or patients should be
referred as follows:
• During normal working hours: The Group Chief Executive or
Director of Operations.
• Outside normal working hours: Senior Nurse Management who
will liaise with Senior Hospital Management.
Giving interviews, statements or any other information connected
with the services provided by the Hospital should not be undertaken
without the prior approval of the Group Chief Executive or the
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