EU campaign will focus on NHS and racism around migration, NEC

UNISON executive prepares for EU referendum and union conference

Article on the UNISON National site.
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It’s almost time for our One Team parties

Get read for July’s celebration of the whole NHS team, including our new awards for health heroes

Article on the UNISON National site.

Not a normal day for NHS workers

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

Article on the UNISON National site.

23 June: five key questions on the EU referendum

When you’re considering how to vote in the EU referendum later this month, here are five key points to have in mind

Article on the UNISON National site.

Beware the NHS myths from Gove and the Brexit Bunch

As the economy stutters, more people lose their jobs, tax receipts fall and services are cut, do you trust Michael Gove and Boris Johnson to defend our health service and fund it properly?

General Secretary's blog, News on the UNISON National site.

Belfast honours nurses

Freedom of the city accepted by UNISON delegation – on behalf of the whole health care family

Article on the UNISON National site.

Plans to scrap student bursaries may cost the NHS more not less, says new report

Huge drop in the number of NHS students if the NHS bursary is scrapped, will mean even fewer qualified new recruits from 2020 – causing trusts to spend more on agency staff or overseas recruitment to make up the inevitable shortfall in numbers

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Voters in Wales should treat the Brexiters new-found faith in the NHS with extreme caution

The leave campaign’s loudest cheerleaders ­ Boris Johnson and Michael Gove ­ don’t even support a publicly-funded NHS. In the past they’ve backed introducing charges for patients and opening up more of the health service to private firms who will put profit ahead of patient care.

General Secretary's blog, News on the UNISON National site.

The Brexit campaign is peddling utter nonsense on the NHS

In recent weeks, those who want us to leave Europe – the Tory headbangers, UKIP and friends – have been claiming that the NHS will get more money if we leave the EU. That’s utter nonsense. These are often the same politicians whose government has strangled the NHS of funds over the past six years, […]

General Secretary's blog, News on the UNISON National site.

Brexit brigade don’t have the NHS’s best interests at heart, says UNISON

Commenting on Michael Gove’s comments about the NHS, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “No-one should be taken in by this latest bout of NHS scaremongering from the Brexit brigade. “Nurses, health visitors, midwives and other health workers who have come to work in the NHS from across the EU have thrown a lifeline to […]

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.