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UNISON has always encouraged patients and their families to think twice before calling 999 for an emergency ambulance or turning up to the emergency department of a local […]

Union wins praise from Welsh government minister for identifying concerns at Betsi Cadwaladr hospitals

Health workers are facing what is predicted to be the worst winter in history for the NHS, a mounting patient backlog and staffing shortages. With other sectors boosting wages to […]

Regional secretary Tim Roberts reports back from UNISON Eastern pay battle bus in his latest blog

Planned East of England strikes for 20 March have been put on pause after the government made a new offer in the long-running dispute over NHS pay. After two weeks of frantic negotiations, ministers have offered an additional one-off lump sum for 2022/23 that rises in value up the NHS pay bands. This is worth […]

2021 was a tricky time for recruiting and many branches across the union struggled to maintain the growth of the last few years. But our East of England Ambulance Service branch managed a bumper year, with a net gain of more than 150 members over 2021. Branch chair Glenn Carrington (pictured) explained how the groundwork […]

Around 350,000 NHS employees, working for more than 250 health trusts and boards across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, are being asked to vote for strike action over pay this winter from today, says UNISON. Porters, nurses, security guards, paramedics, cleaners, midwives, occupational therapists and other NHS staff across the rest of the UK join […]

It comes after more than 3,000 staff at the trust, which runs hospitals in Basildon, Chelmsford and Southend, signed a petition against the charges. Hospital workers argued the plan was […]

We talk to paramedic Trish Tippett about being the face of UNISON’s No Going Back to Normal campaign

The Trust, which runs Hinchingbrooke, Peterborough and Stamford & Rutland hospitals, wants to sell around 70 staff in catering, cleaning, portering and other […]

NHS workers have been lauded as heroes during the pandemic, with government ministers proudly standing on their doorsteps to clap our keyworkers. But when UNISON and our sister health unions asked them to turn claps into cash and give NHS staff a long overdue pay rise, there was rather less support. We’re fighting to change […]

With ambulance staff facing an unprecedented crisis, EEAS UNISON branch chair Glenn Carrington was invited on to the BBC’s PM programme to explain how workers are coping. "It's terrible. We're on our knees, it's absolutely terrible." Listen to @UnisonEEAS chair Glenn explain what's happening to the ambulance service on the PM programme. pic.twitter.com/HrCrgwbyXI — UNISON […]

NHS staff from across the East of England are protesting outside Colchester Hospital today on the day that NHS staff should have received a pay rise. Government delays mean that nurses, porters, healthcare assistants and other NHS employees in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will not get a wage increase until May at the earliest. […]

Health workers across the east of England are appealing to the public this week to back their campaign so NHS staff can receive a proper pay rise before the summer, says UNISON today. Over the next few days, hospital porters, clerical workers, cleaners, nurses, healthcare assistants and other NHS staff will be urging people to […]

Tim Roberts explains why UNISON will keep talking about – and acting on – poor pay in our public services