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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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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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…
Ministers must do their bit and put NHS pay right
The article Better pay key to solving NHS staffing crisis first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Ambulance employees work in all sorts of situations and weathers.
The article Ambulance uniforms not fit for purpose and may put staff at risk, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
Most worked extra hours and took on more intense workloads.
The article The pandemic efforts of health staff are being undermined by political choices, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
General secretary tells health conference that deliberate Conservative choices have created the cost of living crisis
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First in-person conference since 2019 opens with a raft of debates on health, wellbeing and safety in the service
The article Health delegates lay blame for NHS problems squarely on Tories first…Read more…
Without alternative, affordable childcare provision, health workers in South London could be forced out of the NHS, says UNISON
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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…
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…
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…
Many staff are underpaid for the job they do.
The article UNISON comments on nurses recruitment progress report first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
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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Solving the staff crisis has to be an urgent priority so patients can get the help they need.
The article UNISON reacts to latest NHS waiting times figures first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
This is yet another government policy without substance.
The article NHS and social care reform ‘doomed’ without staff or funding to deliver, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Demoralised, overworked, underpaid staff are quitting the NHS every day.
The article No fresh ideas to deal with growing NHS staffing crisis, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
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 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…
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…
Another top-down reorganisation is not the start to the new year that NHS staff in England were expecting.
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