Welcoming the Labour Party’s pledge to end hospital parking charges for patients, visitors and NHS staff, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “The cost of hospital parking is heaping…Read more…
Government guarantees might help reassure NHS and care workforces, says UNISON
Commenting on the report published today (Friday) by the Health Select Committee into the impact of Brexit upon health and social care in the UK, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “The…Read more…
Shifting the balance of power
Devolution is finally reaching the English regions. On May 4 voters get to elect the first tranche of “metro mayors”
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Better pay, safer staffing and fully funded training pledged at health conference
Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth launches triple promise and warns: ‘The future of the NHS is at stake in this election’
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Hospital staff paying ‘extortionate’ charges to park at work, says UNISON
Some hospitals are charging NHS staff, including low-waged nurses and porters, ‘extortionate’ fees of nearly £100 a month to park, says UNISON today (Wednesday). The Royal Free London NHS Foundation…Read more…
UNISON responds to Labour’s pledge for NHS staff
Responding to Labour’s NHS election pledge, to be announced by shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth tomorrow (Wednesday) in Liverpool -at UNISON’s annual health conference – UNISON general…Read more…
NHS employers tempted to view apprentices as ‘cheap labour’, warns UNISON
Union will seek to use Agenda for Change to protect apprentice pay and conditions
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‘The fight’s not over’ in campaign to save NHS bursaries
UNISON health delegates hear moving proof of the value of the bursary for student nurses
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‘Six weeks to save the NHS’, health conference told
UNISON health conference told: ‘We must put the health service centre stage in the general election’
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Don’t trust the Conservatives with the NHS, says UNISON general secretary
‘With the election just over six weeks away, the NHS needs those who have the will, the spirit and the dedication to fight for it, and to save it,’ Dave Prentis tells health conference
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Patients still at risk from chronic nurse understaffing, says UNISON
Chronic understaffing across the NHS is putting patient lives at risk, according to UNISON’s UK-wide annual survey of nurses published today (Monday) at the start of its health conference in…Read more…
‘Desperate’ NHS funding plea
There’s no doubt that the NHS is under pressure as it faces rising demand and chronic government underfunding. But seemingly every week new figures reveal just how massive the scale of the…Read more…
‘Culture of short-termism’
A new report on the NHS by the House of Lords calling for more long-term planning and funding for the health service was welcomed by Unite on Wednesday (April 5). The House of Lords Select…Read more…
Long-term planning essential for the future health of the NHS, says UNISON
Responding to the House of Lords report on the long term sustainability of the NHS, UNISON head of health Christina McAnea said: “The committee is right to say the NHS should be funded by the…Read more…
‘Enough is enough’
Unite members joined campaigners from Yorkshire and beyond as they collectively took to the streets in Leeds on Saturday (April 1) in defence of the NHS. With a turnout reportedly exceeding…Read more…
Stressed and sick
Over-stretched paramedics are taking tens of thousands of days off a year because of stress, as NHS ambulance services struggle to cope with rising numbers of emergency calls. The number of…Read more…
NHS agency staff back down
The back down by NHS bosses on an edict that would have restricted agency staff working in the NHS has been welcomed by Unite today (March 31). The union, which has 100,000 members in the…Read more…
Five-year plans must have proper funding to succeed, says UNISON
Commenting on the publication of NHS England’s update on its five-year plan for the NHS, UNISON head of health Christina McAnea said: “The health service consistently delivers for patients – often in…Read more…
All for just a fiver
NHS staff will see yet another year of falling income as the Pay Review Body (PRB) recommended yesterday (March 28) that health workers get only a 1 per cent pay rise next year – well below projected…Read more…
What Brexit could mean…
On what is to me a sad day I couldn’t help smile at this cartoon in the UNISON members InFOCUS magazine.Read more…