Confidential to Diagnestie Medlab Expo Managers plesse print aed cirvulate to all scat word doe atacte message ‘Message from Arthur 16 February 2009 “The saying goes “As one door loses anther. opens”. Our legal road is now closed, Now isthe ime to go dow the public path. ‘Over the weskend I asked myself questions ‘Do T want to ight for what weal have hore at DML? ‘And, do | want to fight forthe service we provide for Auckland? “The answers on both counts were yes. P've alae been receiving messages from staff anti that many of you fal he same way. Whi the DEB decison may have besn egal itis il bad decision fr Auckland. We have always mained twas bad decision and with poor consequences for Auekland, Legality doesn't tun bad deision (08 good one. therefore need to get this sue back nto the public aren focustheatetion ofthe ~Boarts nd the he goverumien. Todo Ty efeetvely tere needs to bea co-ordinated, “Son To manage ths asta action commits hasbeen Forme and we will Be aBTE® “provide more information ater his week. In the meantime ask yourself the questions above and if you answit yes to them then e's {ake our situation to ancher leh, The people and practitioners ned to be reminded of ‘wht has been purchased for them bythe DH contract decision. Weal have to spread the word and get the public Involved again in our eause ArthurConfidential to Diagnostic Medlab Employees ‘Managers please print and cirulate to all staff word doc attached, same text as ‘Message from Arthur 18 February 2009 ‘We met with DHE representatives on Monday afemoon. I thought it important to et you ‘know the dtl ofthat meting andthe implications for us all ‘Their poston was that now the legal ection beached its conclusion we both needed to ‘ove forward into the detail of trashion tothe new provider. They had three areas they wanted to discuss. Theo were staf, collection rooms, ad service continuity ‘Stat They stated that they didnot have a clea ides of how many staff would want ‘mave to Labests; They thought tha the reluctane so fr was because staf had ot yet net Labtest personne and so needed to understand how Labless was ging o operate as ‘new servee provider a new employer. They sought our assistance fo allow accesso [DML satf and suggested ou pople could maka tor ofthe Labs sit ‘We responded by saying there were many reasons why staff could be disinterested in ‘onsidering Labiest. We declined thet offer os bacon essentially 2 Labtests recruiting agency. We sid tht Labiets could eerut by th usual avenues and tht IF ‘aff wer intersted, they'd contact them. “Thy te i hat the DB lb hat DML ad pt resi on poop ato spp poston, We roid ey sony a ams ter nt a Sar oe ‘Pion this ty sof Ue ie IDs we ma eel at “Surprise tange ToS emp es oS STA aa — CCotlction Rooms: We were informed that thee would bea reduction in collection toms to 53 and were ssked i we would be prepared to give details on how many bleding “shale” were in our room. ebecame clear that although there as bon & decision onthe general suburban area where a colton cre Would be, spec shes hac nt ben chosen. It became clear in the discussion that Labs plan fewer but larger rooms, The problem i out rooms ae a eran sie and it isnot physically posible to ‘um 80 of dre chair room i a four or five chair roo, ‘Continuity of Service: We wer asked ifwe would meet with Labtest to engage in relatively dtalled talks to plan the wansiton of sevies for us o them. The DHBS ‘ated that th plan wasn't Tora ane major change over but planned gredual move of work‘We responded she if Labtests ever gts nough pathologists, sient, technologists ane asus well asa clecton network and viable support futons the hat phleboto ret tine for ranston falls. Inthe meantime we had no obligation treet {Tanests anno obligation to help them get seg ar nas Completely different to wansiton and we sw no need 9 meet gabe oe wlable tes need our alleston rooms then tn the meantime were finalising the messages we nec to commits wth he ior Auckland MPs, DIP Board embers, our supportive medical practioner and people of Avan wil have more detail on slater this week and next week 3s i ‘Legally cau a bed devon into good oe. Thee wl be eed serie delivery Hee dss peholosts third es eoleton rooms and thi less colletion st Seiibe dlsaption i very probable, We have to getthe messages nt the pubic aera, Piet you knowhow over the next Few days. “Thank ou for yourmessages of suport this been yoursupport over the pest ow days that has encoucagd ust stand up once more and Regards Artur