Case study Acas and North Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Trust: Building positive consultation and cooperative working How Acas helped improve the effectiveness of an NHS Trust’s Joint Consultative Committee, with a broader positive impact on staff-management relations, staff relations across sites, and the culture of consultation at the Trust 1 . The Challenge North Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Trust (NLAG) is an Acute Trust formed in April 2003 as the result of a merger between Grimsby Trust and Scunthorpe and Goole Trusts. It employs 4,700 people and recognises the full spread of NHS unions. Several problems became evident following the merger. Management and union styles and employment relations traditions had been radically different at the Grimsby and Scunthorpe

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