Appeals Policy

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Appeals Policy

Written by Human Resources

This policy forms part of Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust’s commitment to create a positive culture of respect for all individuals including staff, patients, their families and carers as well as community partners. The Trust’s values (the ‘4P’s’) are integral to all aspects of day-to-day life in the organisation and underpin the application of all our employment policies and procedures.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that all employees are dealt with fairly and reasonably and a number of employment policies allow for employees at certain stages of these procedures to make a formal appeal. This policy applies to those situations where employees have a right to appeal against formal action taken in accordance with the following:

Disciplinary Policy and Procedure
Performance and Capability Policy and Procedure (including sickness absence)

(The ‘Conduct, Capability, Ill-Health and Appeals Policies and Procedures for Practitioners’ contains separate appeal arrangements for medical and dental staff.)

The purpose of this procedure is to set out the managerial level at which appeals will be heard, and to ensure that decisions are in accordance with the principles of fairness, equity and consistency in all circumstances and that due process has been observed in arriving at the decision. The Appeal will not re-hear the whole case but will review those aspects which the appellant believes have given rise to an incorrect or unfair conclusion, including challenging the degree of severity of the outcome. This may include the submission of new and relevant evidence that was not available at the original hearing.

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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 26 May 2010 09:35 )

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