Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has confirmed that the NHS pay cap will be scrapped but has not said if pay awards will be in line with inflation. The public sector pay cap has been in place for…Read more…
Under threat
Joyce Still, health visitor and Unite delegate spoke on behalf of Unite on the health and social care debate at conference on Tuesday (September 26). Health visitors have a key role, along…Read more…
Govt ‘scramble’ for medics
Thousands of patients have had to move doctors in the last year due to the widespread closure of GP practices in England, shocking new statistics reveal. Some 202 practices were closed or…Read more…
Perfect storm
Proposals to improve nurse education will be useless if the government fails to tackle the estimated shortage of 30,000 nurses in England, Unite said today (Tuesday 13 June). The warning came…Read more…
‘Desperate’ NHS funding plea
There’s no doubt that the NHS is under pressure as it faces rising demand and chronic government underfunding. But seemingly every week new figures reveal just how massive the scale of the…Read more…
‘Culture of short-termism’
A new report on the NHS by the House of Lords calling for more long-term planning and funding for the health service was welcomed by Unite on Wednesday (April 5). The House of Lords Select…Read more…
‘Enough is enough’
Unite members joined campaigners from Yorkshire and beyond as they collectively took to the streets in Leeds on Saturday (April 1) in defence of the NHS. With a turnout reportedly exceeding…Read more…
NHS agency staff back down
The back down by NHS bosses on an edict that would have restricted agency staff working in the NHS has been welcomed by Unite today (March 31). The union, which has 100,000 members in the…Read more…
The NHS’ lost £billion?
Much was made by the government about the £2bn uplift it had given the NHS in for 2015/2016 for frontline services. But where did all that money go? Nearly £1bn – almost half – went into the…Read more…
Patient safety first
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey joined biomedical scientists in Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust yesterday (March 22) on the third day of a week-long strike over patient safety. The scientists,…Read more…
‘Come clean on STPs’
New figures uncovered today (March 21) by the Press Association (PA) have sparked outrage, as it was revealed that controversial sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) to reorganise the NHS…Read more…
The health visitor vanishes?
After the government launched a concerted drive to recruit more health visitors – whose numbers had over the years become dangerously low – a disaster was averted, as targets set in 2011 to train…Read more…
Save our NHS
“Sickness doesn’t have an age,” Unite member Jake Kraweckyj told UNITElive at this weekend’s Save Our NHS march on Saturday (March 4), which drew an estimated quarter of a million people from across…Read more…
Stop cutting our NHS plea
A major demonstration in support of the NHS will see tens of thousands of people take to the streets in London on March 4 calling on the government to end health service funding cuts, privatisation…Read more…
NHS cuts: turn down ‘the noise’
Expensive ‘guerrilla marketing’ tactics are to be used to persuade people in Yorkshire, Humber and north Lincolnshire that ‘the noise’ about NHS cuts needs to be ‘turned down’. Marketing and…Read more…
Get on board — save our NHS
Unite Community West London members will get aboard the ‘Save Our NHS’ open top bus on Saturday (February 11) as part of their campaign to expose the threat posed by the government’s secretive NHS…Read more…
Out of the mouths of babes
Croydon NHS is being forced to take the milk out of babies’ mouths in an attempt to save £30m this financial year. According to Croydon Council Commission Group it spends £395,000 per year on…Read more…
Community nurses’ jobs slash shocker
Demonstrators will gather outside the East Yorkshire headquarters of the Humber NHS Foundation Trust tomorrow (February 1), to protest against plans to slash health visitors and school nurses by 25…Read more…
‘On the edge of collapse’
GPs, already facing unconscionable workloads working for an underfunded and understaffed NHS, were threatened by prime minister Theresa May at the weekend (January 14) with even more cuts to their…Read more…
More than just one ‘blue’ day
Yesterday (January 16) was Blue Monday, officially the most depressing day of the year and it falls each year on the third Monday of January. For many the end of the Christmas period is hard –…Read more…