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Agenda for Change – Tackling Low Pay

Conference
2016 Health Care Service Group Conference
Date
3 December 2015
Decision
Carried

This Conference welcomes the decision taken by UNISON National Delegate Conference in 2015 to “push toward minimum pay rates of £10 per hour.” This Conference also welcomes the decision taken by UNISON Health Conference in 2015 to call upon the Health Service Group Executive to develop a campaign to eliminate Band One from Agenda for […]

Motion on the UNISON National site.

Student Nurses Funding

Conference
2016 Health Care Service Group Conference
Date
3 December 2015
Decision
Carried

This Conference condemns the decision by the UK Tory Government to require fees for nursing and midwifery courses to be paid for from 2017 by loans rather than the current bursary system. This callous decision will drive more and more of those people who want to care for the vulnerable in our society into poverty […]

Motion on the UNISON National site.

Domestic Abuse: Training for Pre-Hospital Healthcare Professionals.

Conference
2016 Health Care Service Group Conference
Date
30 November 2015
Decision
Carried

However the abuse is caused or who causes it, when injury or ill health results and the victim is in need of medical attention, it often falls on the clinicians within our ambulance […]

Motion on the UNISON National site.

Increased Involvement of Consultancy Companies in the NHS

Conference
2016 Health Care Service Group Conference
Date
27 November 2015
Decision
Carried as Amended

For all of 2014 the NHS deficit was £820 million. By the autumn months of 2015/16 the deficit was £930 million. The […]

Motion on the UNISON National site.

Health and Safety Expertise within Health Branches

Conference
2016 Health Care Service Group Conference
Date
18 November 2015
Decision
Carried

Conference regards the health, safety and welfare of workers as paramount across the NHS. Conference believes the successful pursuit of health and safety legislation, regulations and practice in the workplace rests in large part on the efforts of unionised work places. Conference recognises the attempts of government to roll back health and safety provision. Conference […]

Motion on the UNISON National site.