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• Patients would be better served if ministers solved NHS disputes instead of picking fights, says UNISON

  11-01-2023 17:20
  Speaking on the eve of a second strike at five English ambulance services and reacting to new government legislation aimed at curbing strikes, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said today (Tuesday):  “Ministers can’t make these disputes disappear simply by making up new laws.“Health workers are stretched beyond breaking point. They don’t need lecturing on providing safe patient care by a government that’s spent the past decade starvi
  
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• Ongoing disputes make it impossible to submit evidence to NHS pay review body, say health unions 

  11-01-2023 10:37
  Health unions won’t be submitting joint evidence to the NHS pay review body for the next wage round while the current industrial disputes remain unresolved, it has been announced today (Wednesday). 
  Instead, the 14 unions – representing more than one million ambulance staff, nurses, porters, healthcare assistants, physiotherapists and other NHS workers in England – have called for direct pay talks with ministers. 
  Unions believe the lengthy pay review body process is
  
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• #PutNHSpayright – all the news with our rolling report

  11-01-2023 08:46
  07:45am Good morning all. This is the start of another historic day, as UNISON members working in the ambulance service across England take a second day of industrial action.
  We will be bringing you reports from around the regions, so stay tuned.
  The article #PutNHSpayright – all the news with our rolling report first appeared on the UNISON National site.
  
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