Saving less than a million pounds a week whilst making it harder to recruit more nurses, plans to cut the NHS bursary must be one of the most foolish, petty and self-defeating cuts to come from this…Read more…
Intolerable pressure
A new survey shows that GPs are under ever increasing pressure as patients report waiting more than a week for appointments. Last year patients waited over a week to see their GP on more than…Read more…
UNISON slams redundancy plans at NHS Property Services
UNISON has today (Thursday) criticised plans by NHS Property Services to make more than 140 posts redundant in England. Roles at risk include those responsible for maintaining the safety and high…Read more…
Support the Junior Doctors and Student Nurses
For years the government has been slashing at the NHS, cutting and privatising to boost the profits of the private health vultures (many of whom have unsavoury links to MPs and other decision makers).
Now Cameron and Hunt have decided to take on both …Read more…
Junior doctors industrial action: advice for members
UNISON supports the action by junior doctors and has advice for members working in the NHS
The article Junior doctors industrial action: advice for members first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Carry on doctor
As the Tories and their tabloids ramped up attacks on junior hospital doctors, other health professionals rallied in support of the 24 hour strike action set to start tomorrow morning at 8am. NHS…Read more…
‘Bursary or Bust’ is the cry as NHS students rally across England
Rallies and marches back the NHS bursary in London, Manchester and Newcastle
The article ‘Bursary or Bust’ is the cry as NHS students rally across England first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Don’t just give something up for new year – give blood
The NHS Blood and Transplant service needs new donors – particularly if they are young, Black or of South Asia origin
The article Don’t just give something up for new year – give blood…Read more…
NI minister imposes NHS pay award
UNISON refutes minister Simon Hamilton’s claim for trade union non-engagment on NHS pay
The article NI minister imposes NHS pay award first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Axing NHS bursaries will saddle nurses with debt until retirement, warns UNISON
Nurses and other healthcare workers will be paying off their student loans almost until the day they retire UNISON is warning today (Saturday), as student nurses prepare to take part in protests…Read more…
Fears for patient care and jobs
The double whammy of two key failed NHS policies – privatisation and PFI debt – have contributed to the potential merger of two mid-Anglia NHS trusts – possibly affecting patient care and jobs…Read more…
Union paramedic ‘shocked’ at new year honours MBE
Steve Evans, a UNISON member who works at the North West Ambulance Service, has declared himself “shocked” after receiving an MBE in the new year honours. Mr Evans, a paramedic who works…Read more…
Save Our NHS Bursaries
I have just signed the Parliamentary Petition here to keep bursaries for trainee NHS Nurses. The petition has 148,815 supporters (according to the map on the site 250 have signed from my West Ham Consistency.
Parliament will debate this petition on Ja…Read more…
A Happy New Year for the NHS?
There’s no doubt about it, the last 12 months have been a bumpy ride for our National Health Service. Will 2016 be any better? A year that started off with the government negotiating its way out of a bout of unprecedented industrial action involving NHS workers in England from nurses and midwives…Read more…
Failure of hospitals to meet safe staffing targets is no great surprise, says UNISON
An analysis published today (Monday) by the Health Service Journal, which found that nine in ten hospitals in England are failing to meet their own safe staffing targets for the number of nurses on…Read more…
Only God and the bed manager
The consultant was clear – you need to be on an IV drip getting antibiotics in your local A and E within the hour because of complications with chemotherapy treatment. The patient, my partner,…Read more…
Beyond a crisis
GP surgeries are bursting at the seams, ambulance staff are leaving in their droves, NHS waiting times continue to rise drastically, junior doctors were set to walk out in a series of strikes and…Read more…
Ambulance crisis looms
The number of paramedics and other ambulance staff leaving the NHS has nearly doubled in four years with thousands more planning to quit imminently. Poor working conditions and low pay are…Read more…
Trade Union Bill campaign will be the priority, says executive
‘Our aim is to make sure this legislation is not carried’, NEC meeting hears
The article Trade Union Bill campaign will be the priority, says executive first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Government lands NHS students with massive new debts
England is short of 2,600 midwives and has been thousands short for at least a generation. The national midwife shortage has proved a really hard nut to crack. The NHS continues to need every midwife it can get. Successive governments have tried to dri…Read more…