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National media team

These numbers are for media use only, not for queries about membership or general enquiries about the union.

The main press office email address is press@unison.co.uk. You can contact individual members of the team as below. For the weekend of 25/26 January, Anthony Barnes is on duty if there is a pressing media enquiry. Please whatsapp/text/call as email will not be constantly monitored:

Anthony Barnes M: 07834 864794 E: a.barnes@unison.co.uk
Fatima Ayad M: 07508 080383 E: f.ayad@unison.co.uk
Liz Chinchen M: 07778 158175 E: press@unison.co.uk
Dan Ashley M: 07789 518992 E: d.ashley@unison.co.uk

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Unions invite health chiefs for meeting with NHS workers

NHS staff side trade unions have invited Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and NHS Employers Chief Executive Dean Royles to meet them and health workers to discuss the growing dispute over pay in the service.

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UNISON victory over Weston General Hospital privatisation threat

News that the Weston General Hospital has today pulled back from the brink of privatisation has been greeted as a victory for common sense by UNISON.

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Ofsted decision on in-house inspections does not go far enough

The decision to bring school and college inspections in-house is welcome as this is clearly the best model for an accountable and transparent inspection framework, but we are extremely disappointed that this will not apply to early years inspectors

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UNISON slams 900 NHS job losses, work transferred to India

The decision about the future of staff, which includes the closure of dozens of offices across the UK, is to be made at a private session in the board meeting tomorrow.

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NICE guidance on NHS safe staffing levels falls short

UNISONS latest call for safer nurse to patient ratios, comes in the wake of new draft guidance from the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), which the union believes does not go far enough and will be a real disappointment to hundreds of thousands of nurses

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UNISON calls for parliamentary debate on proposed NMC fees rise

Plans by the Nursing and Midwifery Council to raise fees for nurses and midwives by 20% to £120 should be dropped right now, said UNISON the UK’s largest health union

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Housing repossessions pour more doubt on economic recovery

The Government talks about economic recovery, but the rise in the number of people losing their homes because they cannot afford their mortgage repayments, paints a very different picture

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UNISON calls for transparency over health and social care plans

The Government’s plan for integration seems to be foundering. UNISON, NHS and social care workers warned months ago that it would be a rushed job and this is now being echoed by the Cabinet Office

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UNISON calls on LGA to engage in further talks with trade unions over pay dispute

UNISON, the union representing 600,000 local government workers, is today calling on the Local Government Association to re-consider its refusal to take part in arbitration through ACAS and engage in further talks with trade unions.

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ONS figures on number of zero-hours contracts

The rise is risky employment contracts exposes the underlying weakness of economic recovery

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NHS pay warning – step back from the brink

Decision to ignore the PRB, to deny any increase to two thirds of healthcare workers and your failure to make the NHS a Living Wage employer, means that NHS staff feel they have been treated unfairly and with contempt

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UNISON comments on new HMC report into police response into domestic violence

UNISON welcomes the call for police forces to take decisive action and improve their overall response to domestic abuse incidents and collect better data to prevent the violence from escalating

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UNISON says ‘no’ to outrageous 20% rise in nurse registration fees

There is no justification in the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) raising registration fees for midwives and nurses by a massive 20%

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NHS workers’ views are ‘damning indictment of Jeremy Hunt’s record’

Christine McAnea, head of health at union, Unison, agrees. “It comes as no surprise that an overwhelming majority of health workers have no confidence in a secretary of state who has put the NHS under attack. Staff are on average 10% worse off than when the coalition came to power,” she says..

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Inflation Figures – UNISON reaction

Today’s inflation figures will not repair the holes in the pockets of millions of public service workers

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