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Central Sussex Hospitals News Nov 2018.P[...] 07908 157436 [email protected] Central Sussex Hospitals Branch News from Central Sussex Hospitals Branch of UNISON Autumn 2018 Ever thought about becoming a Union Welcome... learning representative? Here’s some help! The core course for new union learning When we took over the role of joint representatives explains UNISON’s approach Communications Officers we promised that to lifelong learning and helping working people we would bring you a regular Newsletter that’s to gain skills and qualifications and learn for relevant for you in this workplace. Well... here personal fulfilment. With a focus on those who it is! Brand new and just for you! have traditionally been excluded from learning, you will learn how you can work with members This is your space and we welcome your views and and employers to identify learning needs, news. Every edition will focus on a member of our promote UNISON’s learning offer, and organize Branch called, rather cleverly ‘Meet the Member’ around learning. and this edition, Micki Lake is starting us off. Follow-on training is also available on topics such as Dyslexia in the Workplace. Contact the Also, in this edition, we have ways for YOU to get branch office for more information via office@ involved with YOUR Branch. The AGM is coming unison-csh.org.uk or take a look at the websites: up in March and this year wouldn’t it be great if https://southeast.unison.org.uk/education/ you could come along not just to find out what https://learning.unison.org.uk/ our Branch does but also the Union that you pay into as a whole and who knows, you may find that you want to get more involved too! Dates for your diary Black Members’ Conference: The AGM is also a chance to socialise with Where: Venue Cymru, Llandudno other members of the Central Sussex Hospitals When: 18 – 20 January 2019 Branch and this year the social is going to be a very special one…why? Well look out for the Women’s Conference next Newsletter for more news about that... In Where: Bournemouth International Centre the meantime, enjoy this one and, if you wish to When: 14 – 16 February 2019 comment on or have an article you would like National Health and Safety Seminar enclosing in the next, then do let us know ok? Where: 2 Lanyon Place, Belfast, BT1 3WH When: 13 March 2019 9:00am – 4:30pm Marce Quinn & George Scott Joint Communication Officers Contact the branch UNISON Central Sussex Health Branch Quick Quiz Room 104, Downsmere, Answers on the back page (no cheating!) Princess Royal Hospital, Lewes Road, Haywards Heath 1) What date was UNISON formed? RH16 4EX 2) What unions merged to create UNISON? 3) Who is the leader of UNISON? Tel: 07908 157436 4) How many members does UNISON have? Email: [email protected] WWW.UNISON-CSH.ORG.UK UNISON Direct: 0800 0857 857 @unison_csh @UNISONCSH Meet the Member Micki Lake, Secretarial Services Manager MSK/Neurosciences/Specialty Medicine and UNISON member. Micki is a champion archer… we asked her questions and she answered… How did you get started with Tell me about your kit… the archery… I use one of three bows – I started by just accompanying depending which bowstyle I am my son and daughter when shooting on that particular day they became interested and a and of course a quiver – which is few years later, in 2013 when the bag the arrows go in, arrows my daughter changed to field (of course) and that’s really it! archery (this meant that I needed to follow my daughter around a What competitions have course rather than sit behind the you taken part in and what line with a book) then I thought success have you had… I’d like to have a go too and so I am the current British I undertook a beginner’s course Champion for Ladies Traditional but I’m down to my last three and to my amazement I found I Field Archery and have been for now and obviously arrows get was really rather good at it for a four years now. I competed in broken or lost and at £13.00 an beginner. So, good in fact that I the World Masters Games and arrow you can imagine this adds entered a competition and won! won four gold medals, myself up on top of which I pay for my and my partner being the only own travel and accommodation, What sort of archery do you archers to get a clean sweep of food and a sports therapist do… sweep of gold medals. and of course I have to pay to I do bare bow archery which actually enter the competitions is just the bow with no additional What particular challenges do so any financial help I can get is aids that you see on Olympic you face… amazing! bows, like sights, stabilisers. So Well, I guess what could hold it is just me, my bow a quiver someone back is that all this is full of arrows. The targets vary self-funded. For competitions I depending on which speciality have travelled to New Zealand I am focussing on that day, so I (for the World Masters Games), could be shooting 3D which are France, Estonia, Italy and plastic animals or field targets Slovenia (where I won the silver which mean that I am hiking medal in bare bow instinctive), through woodlands, Welsh but you can imagine this can be quarries etc and shoot targets financially draining. that have been placed around a I was lucky enough to be course a few miles long. given some arrows by UNISON Don’t forget! Get Involved and Make A Difference: If you have a story for the next CSH Do you have a passion for social justice? Do you want to Branch Newsletter or any feedback then help promote BSUH members issues within CSH Branch Marce & George want to hear from YOU! and BSUH as a Trust? If so, then put yourself forward for the elections at the 2018 Branch Committee at our AGM in [email protected] February. Watch out for nomination paperwork in January. UNISON DIRECT: 0800 0857 857 Freephone text phone: 0800 0967 968 You may already know Alex Knutsen by reputation if not in person. He works as Advisor and Caseworker for UNISON and particularly this Branch. It was therefore with great sadness and regret that we heard that his wife, Denise, had lost her long-fought battle with cancer and died in July. Denise, like Alex, was a committed member of UNISON working for the members of Brighton & Hove branch and her members in schools, for whom she worked so tirelessly. Denise will be remembered with love and deep affection and respect. When we heard that Alex had decided to put his grief to one side to fight in Denise’s name for justice against greed, we felt it only right to invite him to write a piece about that work… Profits Before People – An Immoral Tale! On 7th July this year, my wife, the NHS, one major aspect of not have a problem, in principle, Denise, died in A and E at the our policies appears to have with them making profits, but RSCH of “locally advanced” received little attention – the role do object to the cut throat way oesophageal cancer. She had of the 5 biggest Pharmaceutical in which they are putting profit fought the tumours for nearly Companies. All of these are before people. three years, with tremendous involved in a “race” as we When Denise died, one of the bravery and determination, with speak, to develop, and patent, a people she had worked with for the help of our “heroes” in the form of immunology that would her beloved Schools Support NHS. Her story of this battle, successfully treat a range of Staff, was our General Secretary, which she and I considered cancers. For these organisations Dave Prentis, himself a great was successful, is recorded it is a “Holy Grail”. Of course, campaigner over the issue of elsewhere (available from it also applies to other “races” MRSA. Through my Branch, and [email protected] on that they are involved in, for a with his support, next year’s request). range of diseases. The financial National Conference, will be In typical fashion, Denise left figures are vast. Last year, a asked to support a campaign to her two children and myself, leaked report from one of these raise this issue with Government two main tasks that sum up a companies noted that it was and internationally, to force remarkable woman – the kids investing £2 Billion in research Big Pharma to pool research in were to fundraise for the Sussex and development with an the interests of people – of us! Cancer Fund to provide practical expected minimum profit, if it Impossible to achieve? items for those undergoing won the “race”, of £40 Billion! Maybe it is, but if you don’t chemotherapy via a Just Giving So, we have 5 Big Pharma’s ask, you don’t get. And for site, and I was to take forward carrying out the same R and D, millions of people, worldwide, a campaign that arose from the spending in the region of £10 it is simply a matter of life and political aspects we had come Billion. death. I am 61 years old, and I across over those 3 years. A simple question arises am asking – will you? Whilst UNISON is committed – why can’t they pool this to defending and improving research? I note here, that I do Alex Knutsen Members of UNISON are typically from industries within the public sector and generally cover both full- time and part-time support and administrative staff.
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