title: TUPE. Safe transfer.
abstract: The NHS and Community Care Act protected the pay and conditions of NHS staff transferred from health authority employment to trust. But with the advent of GP fundholding and moves by health care purchasers to 'play' the NHS internal market, HVA members will need the protection of TUPE: the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations 1981, as Roger Kline explains.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kline
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003284:Contract Services / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004651:Employment / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D006113:United Kingdom