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– UNISON is the UK’s largest union with more than 1.3 million members providing public services in […]

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

Now everyone committed to making the NHS thrive again can focus on the challenge of filling the huge gaps in the workforce. "Action on […]

Over the three days, health workers from all across the UK will come together to take part in debates on a wide variety of topics […]

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 […]

Ambulance workers will reluctantly walk out again

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