Search Results for “Local government” tagged nurse

Vital health staff must feel valued and supported

Government promises to overseas nurses must honoured

Article, News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Nurses have given us so much – they deserve our wholehearted support

Yet the government has failed to stand up for nurses and nursing, exacerbating an already serious nursing shortage by […]

General Secretary's blog, News on the UNISON National site.

Boost wages and scrap tuition fees to turbo-charge nurse recruitment

"Ministers could easily turbo-charge recruitment by scrapping student tuition fees and giving staff the early and significant pay rise they deserve. "A wage boost would work […]

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Huge drop in EU nurses applying to work in the UK

“Unless the government does more to raise NHS pay, reassure EU workers already here and encourage potential recruits from […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

UNISON comments on latest NMC figures on UK nurses leaving the NHS ‎

"These figures should ring alarm bells in Whitehall. The government needs to come up with a new way to fund healthcare training. "Ministers must also grant the […]

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Unions announce COVID-19 support for nursing students

The agreements negotiated mean student nurses who are more experienced will be able to help where they can, be paid and have this work count towards their learning

News on the UNISON National site.

Are we heading for a nurse and midwife crisis?

The media is full of reports that we are in, or heading towards, a nursing crisis. That is to say, a huge shortage of them. But are we really? We dive into the data to find out

Article, P.S data on the UNISON National site.