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‘Tax on going to work’
NHS staff in England are being hit with substantial parking fees which totalled nearly £70m last year – a situation that Unite has slammed as... Read More
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‘Severe staff shortages’
Falling numbers of EU nationals working in the NHS have sparked fears that already worrying staff shortages in the health service will only be further... Read More
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‘Impressive mandate’
NHS staff in York will hold a 48-hour strike over a proposal to transfer them to a wholly owned subsidiary designed to avoid paying tax.... Read More
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‘Wholly inadequate’
Unite the union has described a pay offer made to the union’s nursing members working on Jersey as wholly inadequate. Unite has described the... Read More
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‘Short-sighted decisions’
Some temporary agency workers have been found to be working for the NHS for more than a decade at a time, in the process wasting... Read More
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Leadsom’s ‘ironic’ early years care ‘boost’
Unite has branded Tory plans to boost early years care services “ironic” given the party has spent years running them down. Tory MP Andrea... Read More
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As private health firms circle like sharks…
While many may have cheered the departure of Jeremy Hunt, the contentious health secretary who presided over years of NHS cuts and staff pay freezes,... Read More
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‘Like working for a big family’
Royal Sussex County Hospital - and cake Staff at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton were presented with a giant NHS 70th birthday... Read More
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Pathological service cuts?
Whenever ministers think a public service needs an overhaul, they bring in ‘the experts’. Ironically in many cases ‘the experts’ have limited expertise. ... Read More
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Bring our NHS back to health plea
Policy conference delegates reaffirmed Unite’s commitment to saving the NHS from funding cuts and privatisation on the service’s 70th birthday. First time speaker Moira... Read More
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Happy Birthday NHS from Unite
To the tune of Stevie Wonder's Happy Birthday and lit by a sparkling laser display, Unite delegates gave greetings and thanks to the... Read More
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Health care like no other
The National Health Service was born on July 5 1948, delivered by visionary Labour health minister Aneurin “Nye” Bevan at a ceremony at Park Hospital... Read More
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Proper investment call for key NHS service
Tucked away out of public view at most hospitals is a nuclear medicine laboratory where radioactive materials are kept safely in thick lead containers. Dressed... Read More
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Health of the nation
1948 did not only usher in free universal access to primary health care; it also brought with it an idea radical for its time –... Read More
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Happy Birthday our NHS!
Here are some delegates' selfies fresh from our Unite communications digital zone. We love you NHS! ... Read More
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Squeezing the life from our NHS
Keep Our NHS Public has been one of the most used slogans for years as unions, patient groups and politicians campaign to end the privatisation... Read More
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Scrap outsourcing plans call
In the latest intervention in a Unite dispute against NHS outsourcing, Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham today (July 4) responded to Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust's... Read More
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Defend our NHS call
Hospitals in England need 74,000 more beds if the NHS is to catch up with healthcare systems in other wealthy European countries, new research shows.... Read More
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Beware the ‘Trojan Horses’
With the NHS celebrating its 70th birthday, the debate continues to rage over the future funding and structure of the health service as NHS campaigners... Read More
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‘Undemocratic decision’
Strikes against a decision by an NHS trust to outsource workers are “only the beginning” of the fightback, Unite has warned. The warning came... Read More