Healthcare assistants in Bristol celebrate a huge re-banding victory thanks to an 18-month UNISON campaign
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Third day of NHS strikes in Northern Ireland
Thousands of UNISON members in the six arm’s length bodies of the health trust have walked out today, including staff at the NI ambulance service.
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The reform our NHS really needs
With NHS reform getting a lot of attention, the Socialist Health Association Scotland has published a discussion paper I drafted that outlines the issues and seeks views on the way ahead. It is vital that those who support the founding principles…Read more…
Hospital staff in Liverpool are coming home
Staff at two Liverpool hospital sites who work as cleaners, porters, caterers and in other domestic services will be transferred in-house on 1 April
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NHS Reform: It’s Social Care Stupid!
The current NHS crisis has spawned a flurry of proposed reforms to the National Health Service. They range from privatisation to the use of volunteers. However, most miss the point. The underlying problem facing the NHS across the UK is the failu…Read more…
Action on health inequalities
As the UK and Scottish Governments start the process towards another round of Austerity, we need to remember the impact this will have on health inequalities. Those in Scotland’s most deprived areas are 3.9 times more likely to die from an avoidable de…Read more…
OCS workers secure major victory after 26 days of strike action
The outsourced workers have won a pay rise of over 14%, an extra week’s leave and the same sick pay as their directly-employed NHS colleagues
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Blog: Vote ‘yes’ for your futures and the future of our NHS
The current health secretary says nurses can like it or lump it on the below-inflation pay offer, but that’s not good enough. NHS staff – and the service itself – need much better
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‘Patients deserve better’
Unite’s consultative ballot on industrial action over NHS pay in England closes on September 30. Each day this week, we’ll hear from a different member from our Unite health sector who explains why it’s so important to have your say on pay. When Doctors in Unite (DiU) chair and London GP Jackie Applebee learned that […]
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Pledge Yes for the NHS
UNISON launches next stage of its NHS pay campaign, in lead up to industrial action ballot
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Manchester NHS workers get back pay thanks to UNISON campaign
Healthcare assistants are re-banded after the union revealed that they were carrying out clinical tasks that were above the grade they had been hired on
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Tackling drug deaths – Scotland’s national disgrace
Scotland’s drug-related death statistics are a national disgrace. In 2021, 1,330 people in Scotland died due to a drug overdose. That was more than three times the rate of the rest of the UK and the highest in Europe. As the chart below shows, this isn…Read more…
HSGE will reconvene if NHS pay outcome is delayed
In the light of the current political chaos, UNISON’s health service group executive has agreed to step up calls for the Westminster government to release its decision on NHS pay and publish the PRB…Read more…
Ministers are provoking a fight with unions to serve their own ends
The government should focus on helping the country through the cost-of-living crisis
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Proper action needed for Black workers in health and care
Lofty words mean little without decisive action to back them up
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UNISON wins major insourcing battle in Lanarkshire
The jobs of 400 workers at University Hospital Wishaw will be transferred from private contractor Serco onto NHS contracts, with no job losses
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Blog: The UK government must invest properly in our nurses
This International Nurses Day, it’s not enough to celebrate nurses, we need to demand proper investment in the profession
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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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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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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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