Leaders’ debate shows Boris Johnson is out of touch
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Public don’t want NHS staff outsourced to private companies
Workers should stay within NHS, survey shows
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NHS needs investment instead of unpaid overtime
Responding to new Labour Party analysis published today (Friday) suggesting NHS staff work one million hours of unpaid overtime each week, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “The NHS is…Read more…
Worst wait times on record
Patients in England are facing the worst wait times since records began, with one in six patients having waited longer than four hours in A&E to be seen in October. The latest figures…Read more…
New NHS waiting times show Tories are not fit to run NHS
Responding to the latest NHS England data published today (Thursday) showing A&E waiting times are the worst ever, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Patients left in agony on trolleys…Read more…
‘Precisely what is needed’
Unite has welcomed Labour’s rescue plan for the NHS, which will plough £26bn in real terms to resuscitate a health service on its knees after a decade of cuts under successive Tory governments….Read more…
Labour rescue plan gives NHS hope, says UNISON
The health service would be revitalised by this major cash boost to our most cherished national institution
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Visas for overseas NHS staff just ‘window-dressing’, says UNISON
Hostile Tory policies have left overseas staff feeling unwanted and anxious about their futures
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Conservatives putting everything up for grabs on NHS, says UNISON
Briefing lays bare Tory thinking
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Drug and alcohol workers take pay fight to Addaction’s London HQ
Drug and alcohol support workers will be demonstrating outside the headquarters of employer Addaction today (Wednesday), over broken pay promises, says UNISON. Fifteen employees from Leigh and Wigan…Read more…
NHS is ‘unsafe’ in hands of Conservatives, says UNISON
Government policies like scrapping student nursing bursaries have been a disaster. The NHS is clearly unsafe in their hands
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NHS workers to strike at three hospitals over privatisation plans
Facilities staff at Wexham Park and Heatherwood hospitals in Berkshire, and at Frimley Park in Surrey have announced dates for strike action, in an escalation of their campaign to stay in the NHS….Read more…
Delegates warned of Trump threat to the NHS
Assistant general secretary Christina McAnea address disabled members and urges them to tell people to consider public services when they decide how to vote in December’s general election
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Bringing joy to a psychiatric ward
UNISON mental health team from Wales talk about what earned them the Team of the Year title at this week’s Nursing Times awards
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‘Pushed against the wall’
Pathologists at a north east London NHS trust will strike on Monday (November 4) for a week in a dispute over new shift patterns which, it is claimed, could compromise the integrity of patients’…Read more…
Our members’ experience of racism in the NHS
UNISON asked members in the health service for their experience of ‘unacceptable behaviour’, including their experience of racism in the workplace.
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NHS ‘offered on a platter’
The government has held secret discussions with US drug companies about NHS medicine prices, despite Boris Johnson’s claims that the health service would not be included in any post-Brexit trade deal…Read more…
‘Cocktail of calamities’ pushing people into A&E
Responding to the Care Quality Commission’s annual state of care report published today (Tuesday), UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said: “There’s not enough funding for social care, and out of…Read more…
Health and social care ‘on its knees’
Report highlights devastating impact of short-term planning and long-term underinvestment in health and social care
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Healthcare staff should be encouraged rather than coerced into flu jab
Forcing workers could be counter-productive
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