OCS workers do the same jobs as many NHS colleagues but they miss out on sick pay when they’re ill, are paid less when they work unsocial hours
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‘Zero confidence’
Unite has broadly welcomed a new review into health and social care leadership, but has warned that the government will fail to bring about any meaningful change if it doesn’t address more central…Read more…
Better pay key to solving NHS staffing crisis
Ministers must do their bit and put NHS pay right
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Ambulance uniforms not fit for purpose and may put staff at risk, says UNISON
Ambulance employees work in all sorts of situations and weathers.
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The pandemic efforts of health staff are being undermined by political choices, says UNISON
Most worked extra hours and took on more intense workloads.
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NHS staff ‘undermined by political decisions’, says McAnea
General secretary tells health conference that deliberate Conservative choices have created the cost of living crisis
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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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Hospital staff protest against planned closure of nurseries
Without alternative, affordable childcare provision, health workers in South London could be forced out of the NHS, says UNISON
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‘Significant victory for common sense’
Proposals to create a new super NHS laboratory in the North West by closing local sites, which could have led to delays in analysing patient samples, have been halted after a three-year campaign…Read more…
‘Another slap in the face for NHS staff’
Unite has slammed the government for ending free car parking for NHS staff in England this week, as it highlighted rock-bottom morale among health workers and a cost of living crisis that has hit so…Read more…
‘Tired and broken’
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…
UNISON comments on nurses recruitment progress report
Many staff are underpaid for the job they do.
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‘A landmark agreement’
Unite has struck a landmark agreement with one of the UK’s largest NHS trusts to bring 1,800 NHS workers employed by the outsourcer Serco into NHS employment.
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UNISON reacts to latest NHS waiting times figures
Solving the staff crisis has to be an urgent priority so patients can get the help they need.
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NHS and social care reform ‘doomed’ without staff or funding to deliver, says UNISON
This is yet another government policy without substance.
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No fresh ideas to deal with growing NHS staffing crisis, says UNISON
Demoralised, overworked, underpaid staff are quitting the NHS every day.
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Gov’t mandatory NHS jab U-turn welcomed
Unite, which has 100,000 members in the health service, said NHS staff can breathe a sigh of relief for the moment with the confirmation that health and social care secretary Sajid Javid was now…Read more…
Unite leads fight against health and social care bill
Unite has joined with Your NHS Needs You to force a debate in parliament, after over 135,000 people signed a petition calling for the health service to be renationalised. It also demands that…Read more…
Outsourced Serco workers at Barts begin two-week strike
Hundreds of key NHS workers, employed by the giant outsourcing company Serco, began a two week strike across Barts Health NHS Trust today (January 31). Meanwhile, a rally coinciding with the…Read more…
Fixing the NHS staffing crisis should be the government’s priority, says UNISON
Another top-down reorganisation is not the start to the new year that NHS staff in England were expecting.
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