Today’s NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB) report stands as a sharp rebuke to the government’s public sector pay policy. Though their recommendation is for pay to remain within the cap, their comments indicate dismay at the havoc the policy is wreaking on the health service. In 2011/12, the government…Read more…
NHS staff are giving 100%, but getting just 1% in return, says UNISON
Commenting on the announcement from the NHS pay review body (PRB) today (Tuesday), UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Health service employees go above and beyond caring for patients and…Read more…
Latest NHS pay award is ‘derisory’, say health unions
Commenting on the announcement today (Tuesday) from the NHS Pay Review Body (PRB) of its proposals for 2017/18, Christina McAnea, the spokesperson for unions representing staff working in the NHS,…Read more…
Show EU staff NHS needs them call
The number of EU nurses registering in England has fallen by 92 per cent since the Brexit referendum while the number of European NHS nurses who have quit their jobs has increased, new figures show….Read more…
‘Too little too late’
Extra funding for suicide prevention is “too little too late” and will not prevent people dying unnecessarily, an influential parliamentary committee has warned. In a damning report the health…Read more…
UNISON wins £70,000 pay-out for hospital cleaners
22 union members in Torquay receive damages after being made sick by hazardous chemical disinfectant
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NHS report claims ‘inappropriate rationing’
Patients are being left to die in pain because NHS treatment is being rationed, a shocking new report has found. Palliative care patients are being left for hours without treatment due to…Read more…
Sterilisation staff win pay rise after two-month dispute
Welsh health board offers increases of up to £1,900 a year after strike by staff paid less than colleagues working for neighbouring boards
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Public service workers are “the forgotten part of the ‘jam’ generation”, says UNISON
Commenting on the Spring Budget today (Wednesday) UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: On pay “For almost a decade nurses, teaching assistants, town hall staff and others in the public sector…Read more…
‘Sixty billion pound’ man
Chancellor Philip Hammond will set aside £60bn in preparation for a Brexit crisis in tomorrow’s Budget, but will not spend any extra cash to alleviate the meltdown of the UK’s health services. …Read more…
Save our NHS
“Sickness doesn’t have an age,” Unite member Jake Kraweckyj told UNITElive at this weekend’s Save Our NHS march on Saturday (March 4), which drew an estimated quarter of a million people from across…Read more…
Marching to save our NHS
As Unite joined 250, 000 marchers in London on Saturday (March 4) to save our NHS, we’ve captured Unite general secretary Len McCluskey as he speaks to the crowd in Parliament Square. …Read more…
UNISON members join London march for the NHS
Now is its time of need: the NHS needs us and we cannot be found wanting, vice-president Carol Sewell tells demonstration
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Blog: The NHS is in crisis – there must be an urgent injection of cash now
Thousands will march through the streets of London on Saturday, raising their banners and their voices to oppose cuts, closures and privatisation – and to save our NHS.
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Thousands will march to defend the NHS, says UNISON
Thousands of people, including healthcare staff, will march in London at the weekend (Saturday) to protest at continuing cuts to NHS services, say UNISON. The march will highlight increased pressure…Read more…
Hammond: Shell out for NHS call
Chancellor Philip Hammond has been urged to get out his cheque book to save the financially-stricken NHS and social care system, as thousands of demonstrators prepare to march in London in support of…Read more…
For sanity’s sake
Benefit sanctions must be stopped to avert a national mental health crisis, doctors have warned. Doctors from Britain’s leading mental health organisations also called for an immediate review…Read more…
Join us and march for the NHS on Saturday
UNISON calls on members, friends and family to join the 4 March national demonstration and show support for a health service under pressure
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‘Line in the sand’
A line in the sand over further privatisation of the NHS in London needs to be drawn, Unite has said. The latest cause for controversy is at King’s College Hospital (KCH) NHS Foundation…Read more…
‘Systematic undermining’
The NHS ethos is being further undermined in Yorkshire’s East Riding with the ‘whitewash’ awarding of a community health services contract to a ‘better profit business’, Unite said today (February…Read more…