Lived experience workers – A new union approach   Support UNISON to better represent and organise lived experience workers   There is increasing involvement of Peer Support / Lived Experience (LE) workers within mental health services. These are individuals whose role is framed by making constructive use of personal experience of their own mental health […]

Grade us right – Improving job evaluation for nurses and midwives   Job evaluation is central to ensuring NHS jobs are fairly graded and paid in an equal way. Yet too often, nurses and midwives are not having their work fairly recognised.   UNISON surveyed our nursing and midwifery family last year with many thousands […]

Effective nursing and midwifery regulation   Effective professional regulation is central to the provision of safe, kind and high-quality patient care.   Many nurses, midwives and nursing associates only think about the NMC at revalidation or when the time comes to hand over the annual registration fee.   But the NMC sets our professional code, […]