Paramedics are driving 1,000 miles to deliver 10 ambulances to Ukraine health workers and relief goods to refugees
The article London ambulance staff lead humanitarian convoy to Ukraine first appeared on the UNISON National site.
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…