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Health staff will be relieved to know they no longer have to act as immigration officers on the wards.

An awareness day highlighting the contribution of operating department practitioners (ODPs) to patient care will take place on Monday (14 May), UNISON has announced. The first National ODP’s Day will be marked across the country with activities including operating theatre tours, bake sales, and careers talks at schools. The College of Operating Department Practitioners (CODP), […]

UNISON highlighted the huge risks in these ambitious plans from the outset.

Understaffed teams with limited resources has had a terrible impact on staff well-being

Any future financial settlement for the NHS must factor in the costs of having a fairly rewarded and growing workforce

Changes to regional structures should provide the opportunity for the various parts of the NHS to get back to closer working

Members at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS trust started a five-day strike today – here’s why, their own words

While it makes sense for staff to be encouraged to get the flu jab, no-one should feel that they have no option but to have it

This whole policy has been a damaging distraction. Valuable resources that could have gone on improving care have been wasted.

It is simply horrific. It’s unlikely that such a distressing situation would have happened had the service remained in-house.

Exorbitant hospital parking charges have increasingly become the norm in England because the NHS is so starved of funds.

Instead of investing in staffing, ministers introduced restrictive immigration policies and cut training budgets, all of which end up costing the NHS more than necessary in the long term

UNISON will be making full use of this guidance in our scrutiny of any future trust plans to set up subsidiaries

Crisis level staffing has become normal across the NHS

This is great news for staff in Southend