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Every day this week on UniteLive, we’re featuring one of our many inspiring women members in the lead up to International Women’s Day today – if you’ve missed any stories in our series, you can read them all here. Today, we hear from Unite reps and health visitors Jo and Kerry, who are making history […]
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More health visitors and school nurses need to be employed to ensure a successful revamp in standards proposed by their regulatory body, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Unite the union said…Read more…
Proposed cuts to health visiting, school nursing and sexual health services in Hampshire are the latest example of the swingeing cuts to public health services in England that directly undermine…Read more…
Thousands of families in Stoke-on-Trent, which has high levels of child poverty, could be badly hit by city council plans to slash £1 million from the children and young people services’ budget,…Read more…
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, UniteLIVE has regularly highlighted the ‘heroes and zeroes’ of this crisis. Today we present you the top heroes of the year, alongside the worst zeroes, in no…Read more…
How do you get the public on board with policies that no one really supports? Easy – divide and rule, a signature and all-too predictable strategy right out of the Tory government’s playbook….Read more…
Every Friday here on UniteLIVE, we bring you the latest heroes and zeroes amid the coronavirus crisis. Here are this week’s latest: Labour MP Dan Carden As Unite assistant general secretary…Read more…
Last week there were upsetting reports in the media of new mums feeling abandoned by their health visitors – a claim that has left our Unite dedicated health visitor and community healthcare…Read more…
We are living through unprecedented and dramatic times which has seen Covid-19 claim the lives of tens of thousands of our fellow citizens, and more than 500 NHS and social care colleagues. The…Read more…
In Part 1 of our two-part series on NHS pay justice, we heard from A&E nurse and Unite branch secretary Mark Boothroyd, as well as health visitor and Unite rep Victoria Thorpe – both at…Read more…
More than 500 UK health workers have died in the line of duty battling the coronavirus pandemic – this is among the highest health staff death rates from the pandemic in the world. And as the…Read more…
The threat to cut health visitor and community nurse jobs in County Durham, while Covid-19 is still widespread, has been branded as ‘incomprehensible’ by Unite today (July 24). Harrogate and District…Read more…
When you think of our NHS it is the frontline doctors and nurses working tirelessly to save lives that first come to mind. But what about the thousands of community based healthcare workers like…Read more…
Despite the crisis in health visitor numbers showing no sign of abating — with the latest figures revealing a further massive drop compared to figures from as recently as earlier this year –…Read more…
Unite teams up with children’s health organisations and charities to call for government action on health visitor crisis
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Lincolnshire health visitors started a month-long strike today (18 November) as cracks appeared in the county council’s hardline ‘divide and rule’ policy over future job roles.
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More than 70 Lincolnshire health visitors have voted by a large majority to strike in the long running pay dispute over county council plans to ‘divide and rule’ over future job roles. Unite…Read more…
The vital role health visitors play at a time when their numbers are dangerously plummeting was highlighted at a Westminster Hall debate on Wednesday (October 24). That a child’s first months…Read more…
MPs will shine a spotlight on the massive drop in health visitor numbers in a Westminster Hall debate on Wednesday (October 24). The Community Practitioners’ and Health Visitors’ Association…Read more…
Two high profile figures have been appointed as vice-presidents of the Community Practitioners’ and Health Visitors’ Association (CPHVA) which is holding its annual conference in Harrogate on…Read more…