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• Give health staff pay boost to resolve workforce crisis, says UNISON  

  30-09-2022 18:31
  Responding to an analysis by the Nuffield Trust for the BBC showing that 40,000 nurses have left the NHS in England in the past year, UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said today (Friday):  “Nurses and all health employees are passionate about making a difference for patients. But colossal staff shortages and low pay mean it’s no surprise nurses are burned out, fed up and quitting in droves. 
  “The government must wake up to this crisis and increas
  
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• Ministers should be ashamed that NHS staff are having to use food banks, says UNISON

  30-09-2022 01:01
  Commenting on the NHS Providers cost of living survey published today (Friday), UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said: “It’s like the UK has gone back to Victorian times, when workers were so poor, they couldn’t feed their families.
  “Some health employees are now so hard up, they can’t survive without help from their employers. This is a shocking state of affairs. Ministers should be ashamed that things have come to this.
  “The government should be raisin
  
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