With nearly all Covid restrictions lifted last month, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the pandemic had magically vanished overnight. But the latest figures show that Covid cases are on the rise…Read more…
Pushed over the brink
Our Party built the NHS – now it’s our task to help save it
The post Pushed over the brink appeared first on UNITElive.org.Read more…
Govt cuts causing PPE delays
Cost cutting measures imposed by government on NHS procurement need to be reversed because they are causing delays in the supply of personal protection equipment (PPE) to hospitals due to…Read more…
Savage cuts could hurt kids’ health
Thousands of families could be ‘badly affected’ by Thousands of Suffolk families could be badly affected by a county council proposal to axe the health visiting workforce by 25 per cent, Unite said…Read more…
Not entirely satisfied
The NHS’ 70th birthday in 2018 should have be a time for celebration, but despite the hard work of its dedicated staff public satisfaction with Britain’s most cherished institution fell to its lowest…Read more…
‘Fighting a losing battle’
A&E wait times have reached the worst levels since records began, according to the latest NHS figures published this week (February 14). Hospital A&E units in England have seen only…Read more…
Mental health funding crisis
The 700,000 residents of Oxfordshire have been urged to lobby the county’s six MPs about ‘the serial underfunding’ of mental health services by the Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)….Read more…
‘False economy’ cuts
Unite, which represents NHS workers, together with SOS NHS Derbyshire is holding a candlelit demonstration outside Derby council this Wednesday (November 21), in protest at plans to axe a vital…Read more…
‘Impressive mandate’
NHS staff in York will hold a 48-hour strike over a proposal to transfer them to a wholly owned subsidiary designed to avoid paying tax. Unite, with 100,000 members in the health service,…Read more…
‘Short-sighted decisions’
Some temporary agency workers have been found to be working for the NHS for more than a decade at a time, in the process wasting limited health service resources, new research has found. A…Read more…
Win against NHS subsidiaries
Unite has claimed victory in the ongoing fight against subsidiaries being set up by NHS Trusts after yet another Trust dropped plans to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary to avoid paying VAT. …Read more…
‘Burning injustice’?
Less than a year ago, prime minister Theresa May called mental illness a “burning injustice”, one that she said she would make “one of [her] absolute priorities.” “I believe that by taking…Read more…
‘Grassroots campaigning at its best’
Five years on from a remarkable community campaign that saved Lewisham Hospital in southeast London, another grassroots campaign is piling on the pressure to preserve their local NHS services and…Read more…
‘Pandora’s Box’
Unite members protested in York and Chesterfield yesterday (July 25) against moves by two NHS trusts to set up wholly owned subsidiaries to avoid paying tax, as part of a wider campaign to ban the…Read more…
‘Extraordinarily insensitive’
The threat to the Derbyshire psychotherapy service that helps adults traumatised in childhood by sexual and physical abuse should set alarm bells ringing with the public, Unite has warned. The…Read more…
Proper investment call for key NHS service
Tucked away out of public view at most hospitals is a nuclear medicine laboratory where radioactive materials are kept safely in thick lead containers. Dressed in bright white overalls, face masks…Read more…
‘Bare minimum’
The extra £20bn for the NHS announced today by the Prime Minister (June 18) is the bare minimum the service needs, Unite has warned. Theresa May said the funding, which will see the NHS…Read more…
‘Second class care’
An online GP service that is attracting younger patients in London and reducing funding for surgeries in the capital to treat those who are older and less healthy “threatens the very survival of the…Read more…
NHS privatisation is ‘killing people’
Hundreds of thousands of NHS campaigners will converge in London on Saturday (February 3) to demand the Tories fix the embattled health service. In response to the unprecedented and growing…Read more…
‘We break…we burnout’
My name is Debbie Wilkinson and I have been an NHS paramedic in Leeds for 27 years. I once worked out that means I have attended 999 calls at over 35,000 addresses! It’s a job I love and am…Read more…