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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. Unite rep and paramedic Debbie Wilkinson will soon go on her first holiday in over […]
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Unite, which represents over 100,000 workers in the NHS, has today (March 24) called for maximum sensitivity and full consultation with unions to deal with the mental health challenges many health…Read more…
“I’m sad today. I have too much work. It stacks up so quickly and I don’t have the same support I’d have in school. I get easily overwhelmed and I got a consequence on my school record today because…Read more…
NHS ambulance and A&E staff are braced ‘with a great deal of trepidation’ for the fall-out from the mass opening of pubs in England on Saturday, Unite warned today (Wednesday July 1).
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But late yesterday afternoon, thanks to Unite, action the PM made an astonishing U-turn –saying the charge for overseas NHS and care workers will be removed.
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Unite said the hypocrisy of the prime minister was given extra piquancy as he singled out two non-UK nurses – one from New Zealand and the other from Portugal – for praise after he survived his…Read more…
In Kingston Hospital, where I was hospitalised, a memo was issued just days after I was discharged warning that PPE was running so low that all non-critical wards were asked not to use disposable…Read more…
“Gerallt was a hero alongside all of our frontline NHS staff. Day in day out they are selflessly putting themselves at risk in order to protect us all from this terrible virus. When all of this is…Read more…
Following on from Unite’s popular Facebook Live legal Q&A event, Unite will be hosting another one Facebook Live Q&A for members in the health sector tomorrow (Thursday, April 23) from…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…
Absolutely huge shout out to all our fantastic, inspirational and courageous NHS teams working mega hours right now both frontline and behind the scenes, throughout the UK.
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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…
This year Prime Minister’s questions fell on the day the NHS turned 69. It was July 5 and Theresa May told MPs that the country has “more nurses in our hospitals than we had in 2010”. At the…Read more…
Unite is calling on the government to reverse the cuts to mental health nursing as the Care Quality Commission (CQC) report, published (July 20), finds that 25 per cent of core mental health services…Read more…
Today marks the 68th birthday of our NHS. “Unite is proud of the NHS and the work our members do within in. We will continue to fight to protect our NHS, to ensure it can continue to care for…Read more…
Protesters will take to London’s streets this Saturday to demonstrate against Tory plans to cut student nursing bursaries in England and replace them with loans. The plans, which were…Read more…
Ebola – a disease that devastated West Africa last summer – is now a household name, as its viral tentacles spread rapidly from Guinea and then onwards to Sierra Leone and Liberia, leaving thousands…Read more…