Unite health members in Northern Ireland joined thousands of other NHS workers on picket lines across the region today (18 December) in a dispute over pay and patient safety.
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Register increase good news, but hard line on immigration could damage numbers
Rise still leaves the NHS short of what’s needed
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A&E waiting times show NHS ‘on its knees’, says UNISON
New government must deliver on health service promises
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There are 10,000 fewer doctors to see you now. Your Vote can save our NHS
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Under the Tories everything’s been cut. Except waiting times. Your vote can save the NHS
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‘Time to save the NHS running out’
A heart-breaking picture of 4-year-old Jack Williment-Barr sleeping under coats on a hospital floor waiting hours to be seen was published on Monday (December 9), has gone viral and made headlines in…Read more…
‘Corridor care’ crisis
As hospital wait times soar to record levels, four-year-old Jack, pictured in newspapers lying on a hospital floor suffering from suspected pneumonia, has revealed the agonising human cost of an NHS…Read more…
“The scariest kind of operation? One that’s cancelled” Your vote can save the NHS
Speaking at Trades Council Rally Against Cuts
This afternoon I was invited by Redbridge Trades Council to speak at their rally outside the Town Hall in Ilford against public service cuts & in support of postal workers.
As Chair of London UNISON Labour Link (our union Labour Party supporting p…Read more…
Wait to see a GP is no laughing matter
New film highlights appointment frustration felt by millions
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‘Mosaic of concern’
A snapshot survey of health workers has revealed ‘a spreading mosaic of concern’ over patient safety across a cash-strapped NHS. The poll by Unite of nearly 2,000 health service members this…Read more…
NHS lorry drivers ‘fed up’ with low pay
Unite called today (December 3) on logistics firm Unipart and NHS supply company Supply Chain Coordination Limited (SCCL) to take part in talks mediated by the conciliation service Acas over pay for…Read more…
In the fight of our lives
General secretary Dave Prentis has a message for UNISON members and their families, explaining why he will be voting for Labour on 12 December
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NHS staff shortages increase
‘Ongoing understaffing means we are more dependent than ever on the goodwill of health workers’
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Ambulance delays down to nine-year NHS funding squeeze
Commenting on new research from Labour, which shows that in the past three years almost 1.5 million patients have been delayed in the back of ambulances before being admitted to hospital, UNISON…Read more…
Protect NHS from US takeover
Our NHS is not for sale
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NHS up for sale
Confirming beyond doubt that a future Tory government under Boris Johnson would sell out the NHS under a US-UK trade deal, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn revealed an explosive dossier of un-redacted…Read more…
‘No place in our NHS’
Dozens of doctors, health workers and NHS campaigners took to the streets of East London to protest against the latest threat to general practice. GP at Hand, run by technology firm Babylon…Read more…
NHS staff work one million hours of overtime.
Under the Tories, NHS staff work one million hours of unpaid overtime every week.
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UNISON announces health strike dates in Northern Ireland
UNISON has today (Wednesday) announced the dates for strikes and industrial action by health and social services staff in Northern Ireland. Workers represented by the union voted overwhelmingly…Read more…