NHS claims
Scotland's NHS claims were discussed at a case management hearing in Edinburgh on 20 May 2008 - there's nothing of substance to report from that meeting as it focused on various ongoing administrative issues.
More significant is the news that the long awaited test case for all NHS cases has now been set - this has been scheduled for the beginning of October 2008 in Newcastle and is likely to last for 6 weeks.
Stefan Cross and Action 4 Equality are essentially challenging the new NHS pay and grading structures - because we believe that Agenda for Change (AfC) has simply maintained all the old pay differentials by discriminating against many female dominated jobs.
Agenda for Change is not rocket science - it's just another job evaluation scheme at the end of the day - which is UK wide in certain aspects, but local implementation has varied widely in different parts of the country.
We have concerns about Agenda for Change on a number of fronts:
More significant is the news that the long awaited test case for all NHS cases has now been set - this has been scheduled for the beginning of October 2008 in Newcastle and is likely to last for 6 weeks.
Stefan Cross and Action 4 Equality are essentially challenging the new NHS pay and grading structures - because we believe that Agenda for Change (AfC) has simply maintained all the old pay differentials by discriminating against many female dominated jobs.
Agenda for Change is not rocket science - it's just another job evaluation scheme at the end of the day - which is UK wide in certain aspects, but local implementation has varied widely in different parts of the country.
We have concerns about Agenda for Change on a number of fronts:
- The lack of staff input and influence
- The use of generic national job profiles to grade many posts
- The lack transparency on pay information - staff don't know what other groups are paid
- The expertise and training provided to members of local AfC grading and appeals panels
