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And for her, the caring instinct came early – she was 15 when her father died, leaving her with a “big […]

The prospect of £2bn in NHS funding a massive blow for patients and staff

Christina McAnea, head of health at Unison, said: “This coalition government has taken a scalpel to the pay body’s report and won’t escape the anger of NHS staff. It’s a disgrace that 70% of nurses will not even get a pay rise this year – what sort of message does this give to the value […]

UNISON picket lines

The NHS pay ballot closes 18 September 2014.      The ballot for strike action is in response to the Government’s decision to ignore the independent NHS Pay […]

Women’s work is still not being valued despite the fact they often are in vital jobs for society working as nurses, carers and midwives

UNISON, the UK’s largest health union is to ballot its 300,000 NHS members in England for strike action

Northern Ireland trust told to reopen its admissions after private care home threatens closure

UNISON says it’s time for MPs ‘to commit to an NHS that will be here for at least another 66 years’

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.

By organising staff and recruiting heavily, the local branch increased their profile and made the trust sit up […]

Chancellor’s Budget was “short on fairness, short of ideas and short of a feel good factor to persuade people that the pain of continuing austerity was worth it

Local Government workers are equally frustrated.  They are the backbone of local services and for the most vulnerable people in our communities, but are still left waiting for even a miserly 1% […]

NHS staff do an amazingly tough job and it is shameful to learn that just 41% feel satisfied that their trust values their work.

UNISON is about to roll out a Be Safe training programme aimed at encouraging staff to raise concerns about patient care in the National Health Service