Motion
- Motion title
- Health educators
- Session
- 2006-2007
- Meeting link
- HE conference
- Meeting date
- 31 May 2007
- Status
- Passed unanimously
- Motion
- HE9
- Motion text
Cutbacks in education budgets impact upon health educators in multiple ways. Not only do they experience year on year cuts in response to market type mechanisms, but they also have to contend with unrealistic national tariffs set by the Department of Health, and budget-raiding by cash-strapped Strategic Health Authorities. The combined result is the demise of essential health courses, redundancies, and increasing pressures on remaining academic staff to teach excessive hours, in some cases beyond their contracts.
Conference resolves that UCU shall campaign for:
– the numbers of doctors, nurses and midwives in the NHS to be increased to at least the EU average level;
– restoration of ring-fencing of the multi-professional education and training budget;
– national tariffs to be set at a realistic level;
– assurance that no academic staff are pressurised to work in excess of their contracted academic year or weekly hours
- Proposing body
- Northumbria University
- Amended
- Yes
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2007/H/05-31/066/HE9