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Help save the NHS bursary for student nurses, midwives and other health professionals in England

Debate should not focus only on doctors and nurses say delegates at UNISON’s health conference in Brighton

Government warned: ‘if you come for them, we will take industrial action’

Health delegates and Dave Prentis join junior doctors’ picket line and rally in Brighton

Professor Michael West tells UNISON health conference that compassion and the one-team approach are key

General secretary uses health conference to deliver personal message of thanks to NHS

NHS staffing crisis worsened by government migrant rules

Conference demands training for undervalued ancillary, admin and clerical workers

General secretary, shadow health secretary and service group chair unite to sing praises of NHS and its workers

Not one person in the NHS believes £22bn cuts by 2020 are achievable, delegates hear as UNISON health conference gets under way in Brighton

Safe staffing levels across the NHS have worsened significantly in the last year, according to UNISON’s UK-wide annual survey of nursing professionals published today (Monday), at the start of its annual health conference in Brighton. The 2016 survey, conducted on Tuesday 9 February, found that almost two-thirds – 63%, up from 45% the previous year […]

Ambulance staff, including paramedics, are to be balloted over whether they would be prepared to take industrial action over pay, UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis announced today (Monday). Speaking on the eve of the all-out junior doctors’ strike, he warned they will be next on the picket line unless Jeremy Hunt honours promises made a […]

Public services are the bedrock of our communities. UNISON Cymru Wales is campaigning for sustained investment in these services and the public service workforce.

Union presents interim research into Carter Review recommendations on English NHS as health conference opens

Many hospitals are treating apprentices as cheap labour by routinely paying them the minimum wage, even though they often do exactly the same jobs as colleagues earning considerably more, according to a UNISON report published today (Sunday). More than a third of employers across the NHS are hiring apprentices at the statutory minimum of £3.30 […]