Belated picture collage from NHS 70th Birthday Party held on 5 July in Gateshead. UNISON Labour Link Executive was meeting nearby “across the water” to prepare for the National Forum which started the following day and we volunteered to join the celebr…Read more…
The fight to save Chesterfield hospital
UNISON members are campaigning to stop their jobs being outsourced from Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation
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As private health firms circle like sharks…
While many may have cheered the departure of Jeremy Hunt, the contentious health secretary who presided over years of NHS cuts and staff pay freezes, critics say his successor Matt Hancock looks to…Read more…
‘Like working for a big family’
Royal Sussex County Hospital – and cake Staff at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton were presented with a giant NHS 70th birthday cake from Unite today (July 5). Staff…Read more…
Pathological service cuts?
Whenever ministers think a public service needs an overhaul, they bring in ‘the experts’. Ironically in many cases ‘the experts’ have limited expertise. And the very last thing ‘the…Read more…
Bring our NHS back to health plea
Policy conference delegates reaffirmed Unite’s commitment to saving the NHS from funding cuts and privatisation on the service’s 70th birthday.
First time speaker Moira Dawson, a nurse from the East…Read more…
Happy Birthday NHS from Unite
To the tune of Stevie Wonder’s Happy Birthday and lit by a sparkling laser display, Unite delegates gave greetings and thanks to the NHS, saluting Unite’s NHS members. Unite…Read more…
Health care like no other
The National Health Service was born on July 5 1948, delivered by visionary Labour health minister Aneurin “Nye” Bevan at a ceremony at Park Hospital in Manchester, which is now Trafford General….Read more…
Proper investment call for key NHS service
Tucked away out of public view at most hospitals is a nuclear medicine laboratory where radioactive materials are kept safely in thick lead containers. Dressed in bright white overalls, face masks…Read more…
Health of the nation
1948 did not only usher in free universal access to primary health care; it also brought with it an idea radical for its time – that the NHS should “encourage a new attitude to health…the promotion…Read more…
Happy Birthday our NHS!
Here are some delegates’ selfies fresh from our Unite communications digital zone. We love you NHS! …Read more…
Squeezing the life from our NHS
Keep Our NHS Public has been one of the most used slogans for years as unions, patient groups and politicians campaign to end the privatisation of health services. Rallies and protests are…Read more…
Hollywood star Michael Sheen surprises first person born in the NHS
At one minute past midnight on 5th July 1948, Aneira Thomas was born. She wasn’t just any new baby, she was the first baby to be born in the new NHS
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New strike dates announced in Wigan ‘subco‘ dispute
WWL strikers with general secretary Dave Prentis on the 30 June NHS march in London Hospital workers in Wigan will strike for another seven days in two weeks time, as their dispute over being…Read more…
Scrap outsourcing plans call
In the latest intervention in a Unite dispute against NHS outsourcing, Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham today (July 4) responded to Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust’s decision to…Read more…
March for the NHS – how it went down, in pictures
Thousands of people marched through central London to celebrate the 70th birthday of the NHS, and show that they’re willing to fight for it
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UNISON is busting out all over – our monthly highlights
June saw a number of highlights for the union and our members glisten in the early summer sunshine
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Defend our NHS call
Hospitals in England need 74,000 more beds if the NHS is to catch up with healthcare systems in other wealthy European countries, new research shows. The TUC analysis, which found that England…Read more…
Beware the ‘Trojan Horses’
With the NHS celebrating its 70th birthday, the debate continues to rage over the future funding and structure of the health service as NHS campaigners fight to contain the octopus-like tentacles of…Read more…
‘Undemocratic decision’
Strikes against a decision by an NHS trust to outsource workers are “only the beginning” of the fightback, Unite has warned. The warning came after the Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Foundation…Read more…