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• Government should commit to NHS pay talks now to avoid possible strikes next year

  05-07-2023 12:46
  
  The government must commit to holding direct pay talks with unions and employers for the wage increase health workers are due next year if it is serious about improving the NHS pay-setting process, says UNISON today (Wednesday). 
  UNISON says the best 75th birthday present the health secretary could give the NHS would be to agree to start pay negotiations in the autumn, well in advance of next April’s wage boost for NHS staff. 
  That would be the most sensi
  
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• UNISON welcomes British standard on menopause support at work

  05-07-2023 12:12
  
  UNISON has played a key role in the development of a new British standard on menstruation and menopause in the workplace, published today. 
  This new standard draws on UNISON’s guidance on menopause, designed to assist branches in ensuring that workplaces consider how menopausal symptoms can impact on women, trans and non-binary people.
  UNISON national women’s officer Bukky Akinwale said: “The majority of our members are women who will experience the menopause. For many, it
  
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• Blog: From birth until death, the NHS is there for us all

  05-07-2023 12:04
  
  For 75 years, everyone in the UK has depended on the care, skills, experience and dedication of millions of workers, spread across thousands of communities.
  I’ve always said: ‘If it takes a village to raise a child, then it takes a whole team to care for a patient’.
  NHS staff work as one team, every day, to provide the best care they can for everyone who needs it.
  People from all around the world help to make up that team. And that started when RMS Windrush docked in Tilbury, E
  
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