This year the national job evaluation group are reviewing and refreshing the national nursing and midwifery profiles used in evaluating your NHS roles. We surveyed our nursing family last year to gain a full understanding of your role and how it has changed over time; so that we can ensure the new profiles accurately represent […]
UNISON’s health conference finished with debates on a variety of motions with implications on recruitment and retention
General secretary opens UNISON’s health conference, telling delegates: ‘What you do matters to everyone in this country. You are at the centre of the big political debate in our country’
‘We are one team against racism, just as we are one team for patient care’
Almost three-quarters of health members voted to accept the offer with over 150,000 having their say
Escalation of strike action ‘finally got the message through’
Thousands of health workers Northern Ireland will walk out on Friday 31 March and 3 April after talks failed to progress dispute
Thousands of UNISON members in the six arm’s length bodies of the health trust have walked out today, including staff at the NI ambulance service.
Staff at two Liverpool hospital sites who work as cleaners, porters, caterers and in other domestic services will be transferred in-house on 1 April
The outsourced workers have won a pay rise of over 14%, an extra week’s leave and the same sick pay as their directly-employed NHS colleagues
For many NHS workers it’s just about a 4% increase, which lags way behind inflation. And it gets worse. NHS […]
UNISON launches next stage of its NHS pay campaign, in lead up to industrial action ballot
Healthcare assistants are re-banded after the union revealed that they were carrying out clinical tasks that were above the grade they had been hired on
Lofty words mean little without decisive action to back them up
The jobs of 400 workers at University Hospital Wishaw will be transferred from private contractor Serco onto NHS contracts, with no job losses
