Mask wearing in hospitals, clinics and other NHS buildings should remain compulsory when Covid restrictions are eased next Monday (July 19), Unite said this week. Responding to Boris Johnson’s press…Read more…
Happy 73rd Birthday NHS
Happy birthday NHS. Makes me think that my Mum is 80 and was born when there was no NHS, but she was lucky that she had no major health problems when she was little.
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Blog: The best birthday or thank you gift is a pay rise, now
Thank you days for key workers and birthday celebrations for the NHS are great – but what really matters is an increase in pay
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On 73rd birthday, NHS ‘in urgent need of massive investment’
New health and social care secretary Sajid Javid should give the NHS a generous birthday present to celebrate its 73rd birthday today (July 5), as the first step in rejuvenating the health service…Read more…
Remembering NHS workers lost to pandemic means learning lessons for future
Memorial service recognises health staff who lost lives
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Unite welcomes bodycams for paramedics
Unite has welcomed a new initiative that will see paramedics given body cameras to prevent rising levels of abuse and assaults from the public. The cameras, which will be fitted on ambulance workers…Read more…
Not out of the woods yet
As the UK today (June 2) marks its first day of zero Covid fatalities in ten months, an ostensible end to the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed more than 150,000 lives may well be in sight. But…Read more…
UNISON joins the fight over proper use of health data
The union seeks government guarantees that health data will be used in an ethical manner, assigned its true value and used for the benefit of UK healthcare
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Lancashire biomedical scientists strike
NHS patients in Blackburn and Burnley are being warned that test results may be delayed and other services affected, as biomedical scientists employed by East Lancashire NHS Trust began three weeks…Read more…
NHS pay campaign: #2daysfor2k kicks off around the UK
Health workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are demanding an immediate wage increase of at least £2,000 for all NHS staff
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Levelling up won’t mean anything without decent public services
Much-needed reforms missing from parliamentary agenda
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‘All one multi-ethnic working class’
In this ‘tale of two cities’ Oxford Unite member Dr Hosnieh Djafari Marbini, re-standing as a city councillor, believes that local people working together can truly bring about real change in…Read more…
‘The continuing carousel of sleaze and cronyism allegations’
There usually comes a time in the life-time of a long-serving government when there is a light bulb moment which turns out to be terminal for its popularity and electoral prospects.
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Failed pay promises
Biomedical scientists have been on the frontline of Covid-19 testing during the past year.
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NHS at real risk of sell off to ‘profit-hungry’ US firms
In just two days’ time Unite GPs will be making a stand. The protest is against GP practices being taken over by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation – branded as ‘the accelerating…Read more…
Lobbying rules ‘a shoddy farce’
There should be a rapid independent inquiry into the growing lobbying scandal that is engulfing the NHS, Unite said today (April 19) Unite said the need for the inquiry was made more urgent by…Read more…
‘There has to be a reckoning’
The revelations over scandal-hit Greensill Capital and the role of David Cameron should set alarm bells ringing about the accelerating pace of NHS privatisation and sleaze, Unite warned today…Read more…
Calling all outsourced members in the NHS
UNISON survey strengthen its One Team Us2 pay campaign for outsourced healthcare workers
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NHS STAFF DESERVE A PROPER PAY RISE – UNISON
“Families and individuals across the UK are being urged by health unions to create colourful window displays in their homes and workplaces today (Thursday) to show support for NHS staff on the day they should have been getting a pay rise.Artwork…Read more…
Us2 launched as next stage of One Team campaign
UNISON writes to NHS private contractors calling on them to pay Agenda for Change rates to all staff
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