Business ranges from support for migrant healthcare workers to ambulance uniforms
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Ambulance uniforms not fit for purpose and may put staff at risk, says UNISON
Ambulance employees work in all sorts of situations and weathers.
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Pay tops the agenda at health conference
Flexible working and a 35-hour work week were debated in Liverpool on Tuesday afternoon
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Delegates back a range of motions on mileage and other rates
NHS bank rates and on-call rates also debated as UNISON health conference hears that workers are being exploited
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Health debates turn to equalities
Domestic violence, sexual harassment and racism at work and disability equality were among the issues debated in a busy session of UNISON’s 2022 health conference
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‘This is genocide,’ Ukrainian union leader tells health conference
Service group executive statement says: ‘Sometimes you need to pick a side. Sometimes you need to do the right thing’
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UNISON must be ‘proactive’ in greening the NHS, delegates agree
Delegates discuss a trio of motions, with a sense of urgency at the scale of the problem facing the planet
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Health staff risk being driven out by unfair mileage rates and new parking charges, says UNISON
This is not a good time to be an NHS worker struggling on a budget.
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The pandemic efforts of health staff are being undermined by political choices, says UNISON
Most worked extra hours and took on more intense workloads.
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NHS staff ‘undermined by political decisions’, says McAnea
General secretary tells health conference that deliberate Conservative choices have created the cost of living crisis
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Health delegates lay blame for NHS problems squarely on Tories
First in-person conference since 2019 opens with a raft of debates on health, wellbeing and safety in the service
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UNISON health conference opens in Liverpool
Chair of the the union’s health service group, Roz Norman, reminds delegates of successful track record of standing up for health members
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Ambulance pressures taking a significant toll on staff, says UNISON
Ambulance staff, like so many in the NHS, can’t just leave their stress at the door when they get home.
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