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Ministers must end the two-tier employment scandal in the NHS and ensure all employers in the service play by the same rules.

Latest NHS waiting list paints a grim picture of what lies ahead

Action on retention is key

North West Ambulance Service spent more than £15m between January and December 2022 on private emergency services, according to data obtained by the union. South Central Ambulance Service […]

Members taking action has forced the government to listen and take action to improve the pay of all of our hardworking NHS staff writes UNISON head of health Sara Gorton

Health workers had to take many days of strike action, and thousands more had to threaten to join them, to get […]

Thousands of ambulance staff, hospital workers and staff at NHS Blood and Transplant were due to walk out tomorrow in a significant escalation in […]

– UNISON ambulance workers took strike action on 21 December, 11 and 23 January, and 10 February. Health workers at two […]

This is made up of unions representing all health service workers, NHS employers, the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England.  The unions remind […]

“The lack of a coherent government approach to pay will convince many more health workers a career in the NHS is no longer for them. Urgent measures to stop the staffing exodus must be put […]

"Rishi Sunak says he'd love to give health workers a pay rise yet claims he can't. But he can and he should. If he doesn't, NHS strikes will continue […]

"Unless ministers move quickly to boost pay for health workers in England, it'll be plain to the public the government isn’t interested in improving […]

And there must be talks soon to agree the increase health workers are due from April. “Ambulance workers will reluctantly walk out again on Wednesday. But […]

The health secretary needs to set out what the government can do right now

These figures paint a bleak picture of the state of the NHS.