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• Blog: Why the Health and Care Bill is so important

  15-09-2021 14:37
  
  By UNISON head of health Sara Gorton
  UNISON was among the earliest and fiercest critics of the 2012 ‘Lansley’ Act, which extended the scope for privatisation of the NHS in England, and made NHS services subject to unwieldy competition and procurement regulations.
  It also encouraged fragmentation and disrupted the service by creating and moving tens of thousands of people into a series of new ‘arms-length bodies’.
  Since the 2012 Act, UNISON has lobbied for changes –
  
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• Huge vacancy rates across care sector adding to staff mental health crisis

  15-09-2021 01:01
  
  The government’s failure to deal with ​the growing staffing ​crisis in social care ​risks worsening the mounting mental health toll on workers, says UNISON today (Wednesday).
  Figures from a recent UNISON survey show a substantial proportion of care workers have suffered problems during the pandemic including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with more than two thirds (68%) saying their mental health has
  
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