Review recognises need for change to improve services
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Ambulance workplace culture needs to change
Review recognises need for change to improve services
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Payment win for Yorkshire Ambulance Trust bank staff
Unite has secured a lump sum payment for workers employed at Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) Trust who were initially denied the one-off lump sum payment awarded to all other NHS workers, as they were employed on a bank-only contract. Unite has also issued collective grievances at other NHS Trusts where workers have come forward to […]
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Ambulance workers will walk out on Wednesday – and I’ll be out on the picket with them
Without a well-paid, valued and supported workforce, the NHS cannot deliver the quality of care that patients need. Our members’ livelihoods, and the future of our NHS, are always worth fighting for
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Govt ‘guilty of criminal negligence’
Just before Christmas around 1,000 Unite Welsh Ambulance Service workers announced they would be staging industrial action.
The members, including paramedics, EMTs and emergency call handling staff, voted by 88 per cent to strike. Unite will be announcing the strike dates for Wales shortly.
They will join over 1,600 ambulance workers and Unite members in England, who took strike action on December 21.
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Ambulance workers in pre-Xmas strike
More than 1,600 workers at the West Midlands, North West and North East ambulance service trusts will strike on Wednesday, December 21, 2022, their union Unite announced on Tuesday (December 6). Unite says that the action is a `stark warning’ to the government that it must stem the crisis engulfing the NHS following ministers’ deliberate […]
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Pre-Christmas ambulance strikes deepen
More ambulance service workers in England have voted for industrial action Unite announced on Wednesday (November 30). With workers voting by up to 92 per cent to take action, strikes look set to begin ahead of Christmas. Unite will announce details in the coming days. Unite’s ambulance service members say such is the decay across […]
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‘The system is broken’
Ahead of a Unite strike ballot of ambulance workers closing on Wednesday (November 30), the Mirror spoke to several Unite paramedics who’re at the end of their tether. A perfect storm of huge and rising patient handover wait times, high levels of staff sickness mostly due to stress — with many leaving the service altogether […]
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“If we don’t fight, there will be no NHS’
Ambulance workers are among the many thousands of NHS staff who are now in a fight to save the health service – and protect their livelihoods – amid an unprecedented cost of living and NHS funding crisis. The ambulance workers, which include call handlers and paramedics, are furious over the 4 per cent Agenda for […]
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UNISON ambulance workers share heartbreaking stories of wait times
“The guilt you feel, the anger, the frustration. I can’t put it into words, it’s heartbreaking”
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Newly qualified paramedics enjoy UNISON-won pay boost
Newly qualified paramedics won a pay increase after submitting a collective grievance
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London ambulance staff lead humanitarian convoy to Ukraine
Paramedics are driving 1,000 miles to deliver 10 ambulances to Ukraine health workers and relief goods to refugees
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Blog: Call 999 – the terrifying crisis in the ambulance service
We need them when things are at their worst, but demand on paramedics has been increasing, recently hidden by the pandemic. How can our first responders be helped?
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Welfare of ambulance staff at risk as services face ‘unsustainable’ demand
UNISON has written to ambulance service chiefs calling for urgent support for staff as services face unprecedented 999 call volumes and unsustainable demand from the public. The letter to Daren…Read more…
NHS staff Covid-19 fears for A&E as pubs reopen
NHS ambulance and A&E staff are braced ‘with a great deal of trepidation’ for the fall-out from the mass opening of pubs in England on Saturday, Unite warned today (Wednesday July 1).
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Ambulance staff in Northern Ireland to receive backdated pay boost, says UNISON
Hundreds of workers will see pay bands lifted
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‘Everything is jam tomorrow’
“Unite is urgently calling for ambulance workers to be given clear guidance regarding triaging which patients should be taken to hospital and more action on PPE which needs to be supplied to…Read more…
‘His loss is simply immeasurable’
“Gerallt was a hero alongside all of our frontline NHS staff. Day in day out they are selflessly putting themselves at risk in order to protect us all from this terrible virus. When all of this is…Read more…
End PPE postcode lottery call
The postcode lottery that exists in the supply and distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) must end, Unite has told the government today (April 15).
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‘National scandal’
Unite Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) members working in the north division have moved one step closer to strike action after a consultative ballot in which 75 per cent voted to strike over working…Read more…