UNISON NI believes that the British government has missed an opportunity to boost patient care by failing to recommend minimum staffing levels in its response to the Mid Staffs report. The union has been campaigning for many years on the importance of having the right number of staff with the right mix of skills on hospital wards, and the Mid Staffs report highlighted the importance of this in delivering high quality, compassionate and dignified patient care. A recent survey by UNISON NI’s ...
Happy Easter everyone, all of us here at UNISON South & East Belfast hope you have a great Easter break. Our offices will be closed on Monday 1st & Tuesday 2nd April reopening on Wednesday 3rd April, if you need to get in contact with us please feel free to fill out the contact form at http://unisonseb.org.uk/contact/ or send us an email to mail@unisonseb.org.uk.
Did you know that, following an agreement between UNISON and HM Revenue & Customs, you may be able to claim tax relief for shoes, tights, cleaning your uniform, Nursing & Midwifery Council subscriptions and your UNISON subscriptions? To help find out if you can claim and how to do it, UNISON has prepared a claim form. You can find out more on the document below. Tax Relief for Nursing Staff: Tax Relief for Nursing Staff.pdf
STATEMENT FROM PATRICIA McKEOWN, REGIONAL SECRETARY HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE ‘SOLD OUT’ BY HEALTH MINISTER! Today the Minister for Health unveiled a disastrous plan for cuts, closures and privatisation. This follows a public consultation which he claims was a ‘ringing endorsement’. This is an extraordinary distortion of reality. By co-incidence or otherwise none of the trade union responses appear in the consultation report. Those responses cover the views of a quarter of a million trade unionists. If we include their families, we are ...
PAY FREEZE FOLLOWED BY SQUEEZE HITS NHS WORKERS HARD NHS workers including nurses, paramedics, therapists and midwives face another year of financial hardship following today’s Government decision to impose a 1% increase. Condemning the 1%, UNISON the union which represents 450,000 health workers, said that the “squeeze on pay coming on the back of a two year pay freeze has left many health workers and their families struggling to make ends meet”. The union hit out at the Government for undermining the ...
We had the first of our roadshows today in the estates department at KHCP, our roadshows will be ongoing for the rest of the month, you can find out the rest of the dates here
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This is the home of the new UNISON South & East Belfast blog, here we will regularly post articles of interest and keep you up to date with what is going on in your workplace.
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