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• The pandemic efforts of health staff are being undermined by political choices, says UNISON

  25-04-2022 18:11
  
  Addressing UNISON’s annual health conference in Liverpool today (Monday), general secretary Christina McAnea said:
  “The pandemic proved just how much we all need the NHS and the incredible staff who work in it.
  “Yet both the prime minister and the chancellor are guilty of taking health workers for granted.
  “Over the last two years, health staff have lost colleagues, patients, family members and friends to the virus, and worked under an unbelievable amount o
  
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• NHS staff ‘undermined by political decisions’, says McAnea

  25-04-2022 16:59
  
  Christina McAnea brought UNISON’s health conference to its feet this afternoon, as she tore into the Westminster government’s record on funding the NHS, and on its handling of COVID-19.
  “The pandemic proved just how much we all need the NHS and the incredible staff who work in it,” she said, “yet both the prime minister and the chancellor still take it for granted.”
  Celebrating the work done by the whole NHS team – and the general secretary included her
  
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• Blog: Why it’s vital police staff have their say this week

  25-04-2022 16:28
  
  Police staff aren’t always the first people that spring to mind when the public thinks about the police service. But when their roles include 999 call-handlers, dispatchers, crime scene investigators, police community support officers, investigators, analysts, and custody officers, it’s clear their work is vital for community safety.
  Right now, UNISON is balloting around 30,000 police staff members in England and Wales to consult them on the latest offer negotiated with employers. Th
  
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• Health delegates lay blame for NHS problems squarely on Tories

  25-04-2022 14:45
  
  The responsibility for the struggle facing the NHS was at the heart of the message in the first motion, when UNISON’s first in-person health conference since 2019 opened in Liverpool this morning.
  And the gist of it was: “The blame lies with this government – not COVID.”
  In the first of a series of motions on health, safety and wellbeing, Eddie Woolley for the service group executive told delegates that, in the 10 years leading up to the pandemic, “we have been shou
  
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• UNISON health conference opens in Liverpool

  25-04-2022 12:59
  
  UNISON’s health conference opened in Liverpool this morning with a minute’s silence in memory of health members and colleagues lost during the pandemic – and a reminder of the lasting effects of the pandemic on health staff.
  Taking to the podium exactly 1,113 days after her last address to conference, in Bournemouth in 2019, Roz Norman, chair of the executive welcomed delegates and spoke of the lasting effect of COVID over the intervening three years, warning that the full impa
  
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• Ambulance pressures taking a significant toll on staff, says UNISON

  25-04-2022 10:21
  
  Increasing pressures on ambulance services are leaving workers “overwhelmed” and struggling to shake off work stress when they finally finish their shifts, according to a new UNISON survey published today (Monday).
  Emotional breakdowns, sleep problems, mood swings and the use of anti-depressants are among the issues reported by staff who have been dealing with unprecedented demand for months, says the union.
  The survey gives a snapshot of the colossal scale of difficulties the ambula
  
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