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The Department of Health and Social Care has responded to the consultation on proposed changes to the member contribution structure for the England and Wales NHS Pension Scheme.
Update 8 March 2022: The government has announced that it intends to proceed with bringing forward regulations to revoke vaccination as a condition of deployment. The government received over 90,000 responses to its consultation with 90% of respondents supporting the withdrawal of the mandatory vaccine policy. You can read UNISON’s response here. The new regulations need […]
Update 8 March 2022: The government has announced that it intends to proceed with bringing forward regulations to revoke vaccination as a condition of deployment. The government received over 90,000 responses to its consultation with 90% of respondents supporting the withdrawal of the mandatory vaccine policy. You can read UNISON’s response here. The new regulations need […]
Flexible working wins from the frontline
UNISON National Officer for Nursing Stuart Tuckwood summarises of some of the most important topics we have worked on and discusses our contributions.
UNISON sponsors the ‘Team of the Year’ prize at the Nursing Times Awards. Find out more about this year’s winners!
Gamu Nyasoro, a registered nurse and East Midlands representative on UNISON’s National Nursing and Midwifery committee, writes about the potential pitfalls that await newly recruited nurses, what she and her branch have done to help them settle and how she has helped UNISON to develop a more structured programme of support.
Newly-registered nurse and UNISON Student Nurse Lead Joy O’Gorman talks about her transition into newly registered practice and discusses some of the work UNISON has been doing to secure better support.
Alison Leary is a Professor of healthcare and workforce modelling and researches the workforce and patient safety. She helped to found the recent campaign to protect the title of nurse in law. Here she writes about the campaign and why this issue is so important.
The NHS Staff Council’s Health, Safety and Wellbeing Partnership Group (HSWPG) has developed UK-wide guidance to support NHS organisations to improve their provision of staff welfare facilities.
The Department of Health and Social Care is consulting on the implementation of a new member contribution structure for the NHS Pension Scheme in England and Wales.
On Monday 16 August 2021, the government advice on self-isolation following contact with a positive COVID-19 case changed.
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented pressure on NHS staff and resources. A new UK-wide online survey aims to look at the impact of the pandemic on NHS staff retention, including how this might vary between different groups of NHS employees.
EU Settled Scheme deadline on 30 June 2021 – what does it mean for UNISON members?
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has announced that they will carry out further inspections of NHS Trusts and Boards across Wales, Scotland and England from July to December 2021. This follows a series of inspections which took place towards the end of last year, focussing on measures to manage health and safety risks […]