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Nominations are open for the UNISON-sponsored Jean Atkinson award for outstanding healthcare assistant (closing date 21 April)

UNISON will run its sixth annual safe NHS staffing levels survey on 7 February and is asking all members in the nursing family to take part

General secretary Dave Prentis opens new joint centre at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn

Union steward and football legend feature in Scottish government lung cancer awareness film

It is an issue for everyone, including UNISON. “We recognise the impact that domestic abuse has on our members’ lives.” That is why the union offers practical support to help […]

Nurses and midwives warned that lapses will mean losing their registration and put their ability to work at risk

Southport and Ormskirk hospitals backs TUC Dying to Work campaign

Liz Potter’s double mastectomy following breast cancer left her determined to speak up for the NHS

Healthcare assistants (HCAs) working in the NHS are doing the jobs of nurses without the equivalent pay or education, says a report from UNISON published today (Friday). Two in five (39%) say they have not received the training necessary to provide the care expected of them such as looking after dementia patients, according to the […]

UNISON warns that move risks staff coming to work ill to avoid triggering process that could lead to dismissal – in a trust that has one of best sick-leave records in the region

Staff are ‘rightly anxious’ about the implications of cost-cutting pressure on trusts

They warn that the plans are "a short-sighted attempt to solve a long-term and complicated problem […]

Commenting on new NHS England figures published today (Thursday), highlighting the scale of delayed discharges from hospitals, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Continuous cuts to social care budgets are the reason why many people have to stay longer in hospital than they should. “The problem is getting worse, not better. Already this year there […]

On a normal Wednesday morning Emily Heron would be taking patients’ blood pressure or doing observations…

Cutting financial ‘lifeline’ to student nurses will leave them thousands of pounds in debt