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Nye’s battle to create the NHS leads us to an important moment today, which is UNISON’s campaign for a National Care Service as the best way to lift care workers out of in-work poverty forever […]

"Lengthy waits for NHS operations and treatment have left people languishing at home, too sick or injured to work. That's […]

“It’s no small wonder three in ten NHS workers had to take time off for mental health issues in the past year. “The pressures on healthcare […]

Forty brand new hospitals, a valued and appreciated workforce, NHS pay rises beyond your wildest dreams,” the general secretary quipped, to laughter from delegates […]

“But NHS staff often put up with this appalling abuse, not reporting it because they don’t believe […]

“But NHS staff often put up with this appalling abuse, not reporting it because they don’t believe […]

Healthcare support staff are handing in more than 400 open letters to the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT) board today asking for fair pay for the clinical duties they undertake, says UNISON. A delegation of healthcare assistants, maternity support workers, theatre assistants and other clinical support staff are to present the letters […]

"Nor should they have had to wait many months for the one-off payments their directly employed NHS colleagues got months ago. "Private firms, social enterprises and wholly-owned […]

Leader of the House Penny Mordaunt MP says she will make sure the case of the Dudley workers is looked at

NHS staff must be able to get on with their jobs without the fear of abuse, assault, or ill-treatment […]

New guidance for managers and staff on the use of different languages at work has been launched at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with UNISON

A mural to commemorate former miners and hospital workers is being created on the site of the former hospital in Castleford, thanks to the efforts of a UNISON rep. The artwork, which has been commissioned to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strikes, is on the side of a property built on the […]

Some of the lowest-paid staff at Prospect Park Hospital in Reading are taking strike action in a dispute about pay. The strike is over their employer ISS’s refusal to pay the workers a lump sum worth at least £1,655, which has already been given to hundreds of thousands of people employed directly by the NHS. […]

“I went there as a young girl – and I’ve done everything there,” she explains. “I did 22 years as a porter; I’ve […]

UNISON, which is the biggest union in the NHS, has this week written to the health secretary setting out the case for sustained investment in the […]