OUTSOURCED cleaners at Great Ormond Street Hospital are to be employed directly by the NHS in a “historic” victory for workers, their union announced today. 

The decision marks the end of decades of outsourcing at the children’s hospital in Bloomsbury, London, and a £10 million contract with outsource giant OCS. 

The hospital’s 100 cleaners, who are members of United Voices of the World, had been set to vote in a ballot for strike action in their bid to be brought back in-house by the NHS.