An awareness day highlighting the contribution of operating department practitioners (ODPs) to patient care will take place on Monday (14 May), UNISON has announced. The first National ODP’s Day will…Read more…
UNISON comment on NHS staff handing patients’ data to the Home Office
Health staff will be relieved to know they no longer have to act as immigration officers on the wards.
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Wigan hospital staff vote for strike over outsourcing plans
NHS trust’s plans to move jobs and workers to its own private company sees 89% vote for strike – in a 79% turn-out
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Sunshine and showers – April’s highlights
April may have started with the Easter holidays but there was no rest for UNISON staff, activists and members. And there was only one issue on everyone’s mind – pay.
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‘Duty of care is to patients’
Home Office immigration officers have asked an East London GP surgery to reveal a patient’s address in what Unite has described as an “appalling” attempt to co-opt health workers into monitoring…Read more…
Government is failing to protect health service staff from violence at work
‘Zero tolerance should mean zero tolerance’, health delegates are told
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NHS trusts are spending millions outsourcing staff to private companies, says UNISON
An FOI request reveals the amount spent by NHS trusts on consultants
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UNISON reacts to latest A&E figures
Commenting on the latest statistics for A&E attendances and admissions for February, UNISON assistant general secretary Christina McAnea said: “The latest data shows just how punishing the winter…Read more…
How UNISON has helped beat the January blues
The union kicked off 2018 with a month of individual successes, stirring calls to action and an ingenious new campaign. And that was just in January. Here’s our ‘hi 5’ highlights
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The NHS crisis in five charts
Unless you’ve been truly hibernating so far this year, you will have heard that thousands of NHS operations have been cancelled. But what is the NHS winter crisis?
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Carillion’s collapse is terrible for staff and the taxpayer, says UNISON
The government needs to safeguard services and protect staff
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Flu jab is important but not the real threat to the NHS, says UNISON
Shortage of staff and lack of funding is the real threat to the NHS
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The letters from NHS doctors and NHS Providers should be a wake-up call for the government
The NHS is under unsustainable pressure and the government needs to take action
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‘Not just a winter crisis’
In a symbolic victory, a Labour motion was passed yesterday (January 10) demanding that the government provide extra funding to tackle the winter crisis now engulfing the NHS. The Opposition…Read more…
Living on a knife-edge – survey reveals what a pay rise would mean to NHS employees
Being able to feed their families, afford dental treatment, repair their cars or pay off debts are some of the things that health workers could afford if the government gave them a decent pay rise,…Read more…
Heart Centre win
East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre (EMCHC) at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester – which treats children and adults with heart problems from birth – was on the brink of closure after NHS England…Read more…
Health unions welcome moves on pay but warn against making staff foot the bill
Talks about the much-needed review of the NHS pay structure and the decent wage rise can now begin.
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Government has shifted on NHS pay, but there could still be a sting in the tail
NHS not out of the woods yet
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NHS Airbnbs?
Unite has slammed the Tories for continuing to tout the idea of renting spare rooms from the public to temporarily house recovering NHS patients, even after widespread condemnation from health groups…Read more…
Scrapping the NHS pay cap is the right thing to do, says UNISON
UNISON responds to the government’s health announcement
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