Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, part of the Plymouth Hospitals NHS [National Health Service] Trust, is to cut 400 jobs. Up to 100 compulsory redundancies are possible. Hospital managers said that more day cases meant fewer patients needed to stay in overnight. Managers added that they hoped to limit compulsory redundancies, and that most jobs would go by not filling vacancies. But unions said that staff were 'very concerned' about cuts.
Iain Andrews of the union Unison said: 'The trouble is that we don't know where they're going to be.'
'Management are still discussing the conditions, but our members are out there wondering if it's going to be them in the firing.'
Eurofound (2006), Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 63864, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/63864.