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• A new deal for health staff

  08-04-2024 18:22
  
  Tuesday afternoon at health conference saw a group of motions on professional and occupational issues.
  Top on the agenda was a motion calling for ‘A new deal for healthcare assistants’. It called on the health SGE to continue to build on the work of the highly successful Pay Fair for Patient Care campaign.
  The campaign focusses on winning significant sums of pack pay for members by fighting for rebanding for healthcare assistants (HCAs) at a local level.
  The motion, moved by Annette
  
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• Health workers in South West celebrate double lump-sum victory

  08-04-2024 17:21
  
  Hundreds of hospital workers in the South West are celebrating victory after NHS and Sodexo respectively committed to paying the lump sum bonuses due to them.
  The one-off payment, part of a deal agreed for all staff on NHS contracts and Agenda for Change, is worth at least £1,655 for full-time health workers.
  Wiltshire
  Staff at Wiltshire’s six community hospitals had taken two days of strike action (pictured above) over the company’s previous refusal to honour the payment,
  
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• Barriers for disabled staff in the health service need to be lowered

  08-04-2024 17:01
  
  Annette Heslop (pictured above) for the nursing and midwifery occupational group moved a motion on ensuring reasonable adjustments for healthcare students on clinical placements.
  Equality law gives disabled workers the right to reasonable adjustments where they experience substantial disadvantage. However, as students are not classed as employees, some struggle on clinical placements to access reasonable adjustments.
  Ms Heslop said that, in such a situation, it was no surprise that students drop
  
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• UNISON will continue to strengthen the Race for Equality campaign

  08-04-2024 16:40
  
  In a motion on equipping branches to tackle race discrimination in the NHS, the health service group executive stressed that UNISON is continuing to strengthen its Race for Equality campaign that was a centrepiece to the union’s Year of Black Workers in 2023.
  Maria Alberts for the service group executive told delegates: “Racism does exist in the NHS”.
  She cited Too Hot to Handle, a report that “shines a light” on the lack of safe and effective means to report and th
  
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• LGBT+ equality is top priority at health conference

  08-04-2024 13:11
  
  The opening debates at UNISON’s health service group conference, which began this morning in Brighton, emphasised the union’s equalities work.
  In the conference’s opening motion, the national LGBT+ committee addressed the Year of LGBT+ Workers and its importance in embedding LGBT+ equality in health.
  Moving the motion for the committee, Adam Williams (pictured above) took the opportunity to stress the great work that has been done by the union on LGBT+ equality, but pointing ou
  
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• UNISON health conference opens in Brighton

  08-04-2024 13:00
  
  UNISON’s annual national health service group conference opened in Brighton this morning, with union president Libby Nolan (pictured above) saying that it had been a “really tough year for us…We say that every year, don’t we?”
  Sending “solidarity” to ambulance workers, she noted that, as ambulances queue outside A&E departments, unable to hand over patients to hospitals because of waiting times, they are bearing the brunt of the crisis in the NHS.
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• NHS staff have been shown porn and offered money for sex at work

  08-04-2024 01:34
  
  NHS staff including ambulance workers,111 call handlers, porters, nurses and cleaners have been shown pornographic images, offered money for sex and assaulted at work, according to research published by UNISON today (Monday).
  In a survey released to coincide with the first day of UNISON’s annual health conference in Brighton, one in ten (10%) healthcare workers reported experiences of sexual harassment.
  This included being touched or kissed, demands for sex in return for favours and d
  
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