UNISON executive prepares for EU referendum and union conference
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It’s almost time for our One Team parties
Get read for July’s celebration of the whole NHS team, including our new awards for health heroes
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Not a normal day for NHS workers
On a normal Wednesday morning Emily Heron would be taking patients’ blood pressure or doing observations…
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23 June: five key questions on the EU referendum
When you’re considering how to vote in the EU referendum later this month, here are five key points to have in mind
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Beware the NHS myths from Gove and the Brexit Bunch
As the economy stutters, more people lose their jobs, tax receipts fall and services are cut, do you trust Michael Gove and Boris Johnson to defend our health service and fund it properly?
The…Read more…
Labour – NHS Day 1988
Labour Party NHS Day at Alexandra Palace 3rd July 1988
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‘Ticking time bomb’ for NHS
Nurses form the backbone of the NHS – they’re often the first person you have contact with in the health service when you’re born and the last member of staff who attends to you when you die. …Read more…
Belfast honours nurses
Freedom of the city accepted by UNISON delegation – on behalf of the whole health care family
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The government must rethink its plans for the NHS bursary
Today hundreds of healthcare students are descending on Parliament to lobby their MPs to protect the NHS bursary. The government decision in December’s spending review to scrap bursaries will leave student nurses, midwives and allied health professionals with huge levels of debt. And this fear of…Read more…
Plans to scrap student bursaries may cost the NHS more not less, says new report
Government plans to scrap the bursary funding for students on nursing, midwifery and other health degrees will mean around 2,000 fewer people a year will study for a career in the NHS, according to a…Read more…
Voters in Wales should treat the Brexiters new-found faith in the NHS with extreme caution
The leave campaign’s loudest cheerleaders Boris Johnson and Michael Gove don’t even support a publicly-funded NHS. In the past they’ve backed introducing charges for patients and opening up more…Read more…
COHSE David Williams With Nye Bevan
A young recently appointed COHSE officer.
David Williams, Denbigh (North Wales) Nurse and future COHSE General Secretary.
Here (centre) with the great Nye Bevan at COHSE conference 1953 and still campaigning for the NHS in 2016Read more…
The Brexit campaign are peddling utter nonsense on the NHS
In recent weeks those who want us to leave Europe – the Tory headbangers, UKIP and friends – have been claiming that the NHS will get more money if we leave the EU. That’s utter nonsense. These are…Read more…
Brexit brigade don’t have the NHS’ best interests at heart, says UNISON
Commenting on Michael Gove’s comments about the NHS, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “No-one should be taken in by this latest bout of NHS scaremongering from the Brexit brigade….Read more…
NHS deficit damaging services to patients, says UNISON
Commenting on new figures showing a deficit of £2.45bn in NHS finances, UNISON head of health Christina McAnea said: “This is yet another set of damaging figures that show the NHS is under…Read more…
UNISON welcomes HSE report on needlesticks
Report finds 83% of organisations failing to comply with sharps regulations
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Queen’s Speech: A failure to tackle the real problems Britain faces
A Conservative Party at war with itself, already out of ideas little over a year on from election day and a Prime Minister so afraid of his own shadow that he’s abandoned any semblance of a serious…Read more…
Austerity max
An angry demonstration has been staged against plans to cut health spending in Fife by tens of millions of pounds. Unite members joined local people in staging a noisy protest at Kirkcaldy’s…Read more…
Vital bus to be cut
Government cuts to the NHS have led to the axing of an essential hospital shuttle bus service for sick and elderly patients and their families and friends. The 15-seat, 22-mile service that…Read more…
Maths of the impossible
The government’s convoluted maths outlining NHS spending is beginning to unravel, as fresh revelations show the health service achieved only £1bn of its £22bn in planned efficiency savings scheduled…Read more…