This is UNISON’s year of the disabled worker and the union is launching a new campaign to help members challenge disability discrimination in the NHS
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Warning comes as an indicative industrial action ballot of health service members in England sees 77% say they’d take ‘sustained’ action over pay
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The government made last minute amendments to the Health and Care Bill this week – changes that will hit the poorest the hardest. Here’s all you need to know and where things are at the moment
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UNISON National Officer for Nursing Stuart Tuckwood summarises of some of the most important topics we have worked on and discusses our contributions.
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UNISON sponsors the ‘Team of the Year’ prize at the Nursing Times Awards. Find out more about this year’s winners!
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Gamu Nyasoro, a registered nurse and East Midlands representative on UNISON’s National Nursing and Midwifery committee, writes about the potential pitfalls that await newly recruited nurses, what she and her branch have done to help them settle and how she has helped UNISON to develop a more structured programme of support.
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Newly-registered nurse and UNISON Student Nurse Lead Joy O’Gorman talks about her transition into newly registered practice and discusses some of the work UNISON has been doing to secure better support.
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Alison Leary is a Professor of healthcare and workforce modelling and researches the workforce and patient safety. She helped to found the recent campaign to protect the title of nurse in law. Here she writes about the campaign and why this issue is so important.
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The story behind UNISON’s efforts to remedy a payroll error that was costing its health members money every time they went on holiday
Fighting to bring public services back in-house is vital work – and two recent victories show that the effort is well worth it