UNISON Aneurin Bevan Health Branch Newsletter Jan 2019 by Julian Price

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Aneurin Bevan Health Branch

NEW YEAR 2019 EDITION

Aneurin Bevan Health UNISON Branch Newsletter

Record Breaking News

AGM Meeting Calendar 2019 2 Officers in Aneurin Bevan Health Branch

New Year Messages

Gloucester Quays Trip

Update your details and WIN 6 Clinical Futures Champion UNISON Application Form

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Breaking News 1

2018 proved to be another record breaking year for our branch. Read more on page 4.

Happy New Year to all our members! Dewis doeth Choose well

Breaking News 2

Our members joined us at our Christmas Shopping Trip to Gloucester Quays. See page 5 for photos of the trip.

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AGM Meetings 2019 DATE

MEETING LOCATION/TIME

Monday 11th March 2019

St Woolos Hospital Restaurant

Online House Meeting Room

9.00am – 11.30am

12noon – 1.00pm

2.00pm – 3.30pm

Food Voucher

Tea/coffee and scones available

Nevill Hall Hospital Small room within the Restaurant

Nevill Hall Hospital Small Room within the Restaurant

8.00am – 11.30am

12noon – 2.00pm

Food Voucher

Royal Gwent Hospital Coffee Shop

6.00am – 11.30am

12noon – 3.30pm

4.00pm – 5.00pm

Tea/coffee and croissants available

Tea/coffee and sandwiches available

Tea/coffee and scones available

Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan Restaurant

St Cadoc’s Hospital Restaurant

County Hospital Restaurant

9.00am – 11.00am

12noon – 1.30pm

Food Voucher

12noon – 1.30pm Food Voucher

Tuesday 12th March 2019

Wednesday 13th March 2019

Monday 18th March 2019

Tuesday 19th March 2019

Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr Restaurant 9.00am – 2.00pm Food Voucher

All meetings are held in half hour slots starting on the hour and half past the hour

Newsletter – New Year 2019

Organising Team Visits Our organising team try to visit as many of our UNISON members in their workplaces as possible and we want to come to see you in our future visits. If you would like us to come to your workplace please contact the UNISON office on 01633 431766 and we will book your workplace in. We will bring over some goodies and news of what is happening within UNISON. All officers listed are currently in post, any changes in new election of officers posts will be confirmed at our AGMs in March 2019 – see opposite.

Officers of the Branch Branch Secretary – Martin Horton Branch Chair – Terry Thurgar Branch Vice Chair – Stefan Senese Branch Treasurer – Tracey Marwick Womens Officer – Julie Coulson Communications Officer – Julian Price Welfare Officer – Gillian Gibbons Education Co-ordinator – Andrea Prince Labour Link Officer – Helen Erasmus Retired Members Officer – Adele Battaglia Young Members Officer (shared) – Katie Coulson Young Members Officer (shared) – Joe Davies International Officer – Kay Davies Health & Safety Officer – Jim Drewett

How to contact the branch Phone: 01633 431766 or 01633 431767 Email: UNISON.office@wales.nhs.uk Facebook: ABHUnison Twitter: UnisonABH Address: UNISON Office, St Cadoc’s Hospital, Lodge Road, Caerleon. NP18 3XQ

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Happy New Year to all our members! New Year Message from Martin Horton, Branch Secretary I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year, and hope you all had a good time over the festive season. It has been another excellent year in the Branch and we continue to grow and move forward even in this difficult climate. Our brilliant organising team have been very active over the last year, keeping you update with issues and events. We have had very successful trips, our summer event to Porthcawl and our Christmas event at Gloucester Quays, which gave our members some well deserved leisure time.

The team will be out again this year engaging with members listening to your views and giving help and advice where needed. They will also be bringing you news and details of events that we have planned for this year. It’s going to be another challenging year with lots of changes going on especially as the SCCC gets closer to opening so remember if you need us we are only a phone call away. What a year our organising team has achieved with record numbers in all our targets for the 2018 year not only in new members joining but also:

Record S ocial media and app engagement Record UNISON free days out Record Workplace visits Record Updated details Record Competition winners Record AGM attendance Your branch and organising team, Stefan, Julie and Julian, are already planning to make this year bigger and better with themed months throughout 2019, alongside the news that UNISON is now officially the biggest trade union in the UK.

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Excellent day out at Gloucester Quays for our Christmas Shopping trip UNISON Aneurin Bevan Health Branch headed to Gloucester for our annual free Christmas Shopping Trip which was enjoyed by all of the members. Please try and come along on our next free trip to be advertised next year.

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Newsletter – New Year 2019

Stefan supports staff and champions Clinical Futures Most people know Stefan Senese as the vice-chair and lead steward for Aneurin Bevan University Health Board’s UNISON branch. But Stefan has volunteered for another role – to champion the Clinical Futures project and help support staff to find out more about the programme and how it’s going to affect them and their work. The Clinical Futures Strategy is the Health Board’s plan to future-proof health service delivery across Gwent – it sets out how we are moving to a better balance of care by delivering more care close to home and creating a network of local hospitals to provide routine diagnostic and treatment services. The plan will also see the centralising of specialist and critical care services in the brand-new and purpose-built Grange University Hospital, at Llanfrechfa. The Health Board knows that

its strength is its dedicated and skilled workforce and acknowledges these kinds of major change to the way that services are delivered will impact on those staff – so is working hard to make sure that everyone will know how the Clinical Futures programme will affect them directly just as soon as the plans are confirmed.

addition, the Champions will support all the staff throughout the Health Board and their own areas of work, by generating and suggesting ideas, listening to their colleagues’ ideas and informing the Clinical Futures teams so they are able to signpost colleagues to appropriate advice and support.

In the meantime there is still lots of information about the programme available and Stefan is one of more than 340 staff members from across all disciplines, divisions and departments who are helping people to find out more – by becoming a Clinical Futures Champion.

They will help staff to meet the challenges of the future in a positive way, so to find out more about CF and let the Health Board hear your ideas speak to your CF Champion or become one yourself – just ask your nearest Champion. They might not have all the answers, but can support you and help you access the most up-to-date information.

Clinical Futures Champions will be easily identifiable by the badges that they wear and it is the Health Board’s ambition that there will be one in virtually every workspace. Team managers will still be most people’s route to the most up-to-date information, but, in

And if you want to become a champion and support your team contact Sian Gibson, Organisational Development Facilitator, or Stefan can tell you more. You’ll receive support and training from the OD team to make sure you’re equipped for the role.

For further information contact: Fiona Phillips Rheolwr Cyfathrebu – Dyfodol Clinigol / Communications Manager – Clinical Futures Llanfrechfa Grange, Cwmbrân / Llanfrechfa Grange, Cwmbran NP44 8YN E-bost / E-mail: Fiona.phillips2@wales.nhs.uk Ffôn / Phone: 01633 623782

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