Acas in the NHS: Helping improve employment relations in response to ‘Agenda for Change’
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This research study describes the challenges facing five NHS Trusts resulting from Trust mergers and the implementation of the Agenda for Change pay modernisation programme. The study evaluates the impact of Acas interventions aimed at improving Trusts’ consultative structures and building their capacity to manage change. It finds that Acas assistance can help NHS Trusts to prepare for and manage change by setting in place a ‘bedrock’ of productive employment relations behaviours and practices.
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