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Burnley patients warned over potential test delays due to strike action

Updated Burnley General Hospital NHS patients in Blackburn and Burnley are being warned that test results may be delayed and other services affected, as biomedical scientists employed by East Lancashire NHS Trust begin three weeks of strike action today (Monday), in a dispute over unpaid back pay. The strike, involving 21 biomedical scientists who are members of Unite, the UK’s leading union, is a result of the trust failing to honour an agreement made in 2019 to upgrade the scientists from band 5 to band 6 on the NHS Agenda for Change pay scale. The affected workers are owed back pay between several hundred pounds to £8,000. The underpayment problem dates back to 2010 for some of the affected scientists.

Blackburn and Burnley hospital blood analysts escalate strike

The move by biomedical scientists is part of a long-running pay dispute. Their union Unite claims the trust has backtracked on a 2019 agreement to upgrade the 21 staff to a higher grade on their specialist pay scale. The scientists, who analyse patient blood samples at the Royal Blackburn and the Burnley General Teaching Hospitals, have boycotted night, weekend and late shifts since May 7. Now their union has revealed they will strike continuously from 00.01 on Monday May 31 until 06.59 on Monday June 21. Unite regional officer Keith Hutson said: “Our biomedical scientists, who have had years of training and are highly skilled, are ratcheting up the industrial action with three weeks of strikes from May 31 which will adversely impact on how quickly patients’ samples can be analysed.

Union calls for Lancashire pathology shake-up plan review

Royal Blackburn Hospital A TRADE union is calling for a public review of plans to centralise the analysis of blood samples in one location. Currently the work is done at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust; Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust. But Unite wants a wider consultation on the scheme being considered by the Lancashire and South Cumbria Pathology Collaboration before any changes. Its call came as its blood analyst members started industrial action at the East Lancashire Trust over a pay and regrading dispute.

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