- Conference
- 2016 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 20 January 2016
- Decision
- Carried
Conference welcomes growing numbers of NHS trusts and employers committing to become living wage employers both by paying their own staff at least the […]
Conference welcomes growing numbers of NHS trusts and employers committing to become living wage employers both by paying their own staff at least the […]
It is essential that blood products are kept and transported safely and securely by staff who have been properly vetted by the NHS procedures […]
NHSBT remains a public service employer built on free donations and UNISON proudly supports this and promotes its philosophy. We may however as a Union from […]
NHSBT remains a public service employer built on free donations and UNISON proudly supports this and promotes its philosophy . We may however as a Union from […]
Conference notes that the commissioning and provision of social care across the UK is delivered in different ways .In Northern Ireland health and social care is an integrated system. This has meant that NHS social care workers have benefitted from the Agenda for Change pay system. In contrast, those working in private provision are exploited […]
Conference notes the successive transfers of commissioning responsibility for Public Health from the NHS in England to local councils since the abolition of PCTs. The most recent was the responsibility for Children & Young People’s (0-19) Health and Wellbeing (mainly School Nursing and Health Visiting) on 1st October 2015. We also note: i)the ‘in year’ […]
Conference also notes that the Tories have also fueled the anti-immigration rhetoric with their anti-immigration vans and Theresa […]
This conference recognises the critical importance of maintaining and improving standards of cleanliness throughout the NHS with particular emphasis in clinical areas. A quality environment for health care should not be a luxury but an essential element of every patients treatment. UNISON members working in Hospital Cleaning Services have continually shown 100% commitment and professionalism […]
The same ethos should apply to staff. 3)Work in partnership with the Trade Unions to ensure that there is transparency relating to all whistleblowing cases, in that they will […]
The introduction of e-expenses has simplified claiming for expenses for staff that travel a lot with their role as there is an app that you can get on your phone to make this really simple as you start it everytime you get into your car. Unfortunately, travel is paid at the shortest route and this […]
Conference recognises that UNISON Northern Ireland has pledged to campaign for a re-instatement of consolidated pay increases. Conference calls on the SGE to […]
Staff shortages in the NHS and cuts to public sector budgets have caused an over reliance on Agency Staff to fill the skills gap in the NHS. Most of these staff are former NHS workers who were made redundant in the last few years. The cost of Agency Staff is much higher than employing a […]
The NHS, which generations of Black workers helped to build, still continues to depend on their hard work. It’s the largest employer of Black people in England. Over 19% of nurses and 11% of non-medical staff in the NHS are non-white. However, too many of our members are still experiencing racist discrimination in the workplace […]
Conference recognises that private contractors have sadly been a part of our NHS for a generation. This can be a major impediment to achieving UNISON’s long established policy that everyone working within healthcare are part of one NHS team. Private Contractors range from those with whom UNISON branches and activitsts can have a professional working […]
Conference, Disabled members in health are concerned about the growing number of reorganisations which are leading to down banding. In addition to down banding and with government pay restraint health workers are becoming financially worse off. Disabled members believe that the integrity of an equal pay system must be maintained for all workers but the […]