NHS employees as a whole are struggling to survive on just their basic pay.
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‘Final wake-up call’
As the NHS suffers a growing retention and recruitment crisis, new figures reveal that Brexit may be compounding the problem. The number of EU nurses and midwives coming to the UK to work has…Read more…
Are we heading for a nurse and midwife crisis?
The media is full of reports that we are in, or heading towards, a nursing crisis. That is to say, a huge shortage of them. But are we really? We dive into the data to find out.
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Govt ‘scramble’ for medics
Thousands of patients have had to move doctors in the last year due to the widespread closure of GP practices in England, shocking new statistics reveal. Some 202 practices were closed or…Read more…
Perfect storm
Proposals to improve nurse education will be useless if the government fails to tackle the estimated shortage of 30,000 nurses in England, Unite said today (Tuesday 13 June). The warning came…Read more…
Huge drop in EU nurses applying to work in the UK
Only 46 nurses from the EU registered to work in the UK in April, a 96% drop since last July, according to new figures published by the Health Foundation.
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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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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…
Do you know an outstanding healthcare assistant?
Nominations are open for the UNISON-sponsored Jean Atkinson award for outstanding healthcare assistant (closing date 31 March)
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How safe is the staffing in your hospital?
UNISON will run its sixth annual safe NHS staffing levels survey on 7 February and is asking all members in the nursing family to take part
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Are your NMC registration and payments up to date?
Nurses and midwives warned that lapses will mean losing their registration and put their ability to work at risk
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Nursing Associates should not be nurses on the cheap, says UNISON
Wednesday 12 October 2016 For immediate release Nursing Associates should not be nurses on the cheap, says UNISON Responding to the announcement today (Wednesday) by Health Education England that…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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Nurses have given us so much – they deserve our wholehearted support
They’re the world’s largest group of health professionals, an absolutely essential part of every health service around the world – and we celebrate them each year, on 12th May, International Nurses…Read more…
Takeaways and fizzy pop putting health of NHS workforce at risk, warns UNISON
Poor quality hospital food is undermining the health of NHS workers, a survey from UNISON and the Campaign for Better Hospital Food (CBHF) warns today (Wednesday). Nurses and other health employees…Read more…
Are you ready for NMC revalidation?
How nurses, midwives and health visitors renew their registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council has changed – check out the UNISON guidance
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Temporary relief for the NHS as nurses stay on the UK’s job shortage list, says UNISON
Commenting on the announcement from the Migration Advisory Committee –that nurses are to be allowed to remain on the occupational shortages list for another three years – UNISON head of nursing Gail…Read more…
Ask your MP to sign EDM on the NHS bursary
If you’re concerned about the plans to scrap the NHS bursary in England, please contact your MP and ask them to sign EDM 1081
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♡ UNISON: it’s there to back you up
UNISON is a group of people having the same interests and the same cause
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How safe is your staffing?
UNISON will run its fifth annual safe NHS staffing levels survey on 9 February and is asking all members in the nursing family to take part
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