It was agreed at the Staff Council meeting on 1st July 2008 to increase the rates of allowances by 10% in Annex L in the NHS Terms & Conditions Handbook, as set out below. UNISON and other unions had asked for an immediate uplift of 5 pence per mile on all rates, pending the completion […]
Continue ReadingUNISON members working in the NHS have voted to accept a multi-year pay offer worth more than 8%. An individual postal ballot of 452,000 members working in the NHS saw 64.91% of those taking part vote to accept the three-year offer worth 8.1% – and more to some members. A full range of health workers, […]
Continue ReadingUnite (the union) has issued a document entitled Facts about the NHS Pay Offer which they are circulating in health workplaces. The Unite document is clearly aimed at UNISON and we believe it contains a number of inaccuracies which we aim to address in this briefing. This document is available as a PDF file. Click […]
Continue ReadingMembers in the NHS are being asked to vote on a proposed multi-year agreement on pay. Ballot papers will be going out on or after 15 May and must be returned by 3 June. Papers can be requested for new joiners up until the 3 June deadline. Activists and members are asked to: Print out […]
Continue ReadingUNISON has welcomed the government’s assurances over future NHS reform as a helpful blueprint for handling change. Health minister Lord Darzi’s interim report in October called for polyclinics – super surgeries where GPs work alongside social care staff, hospital teams and nurses – to be set up across the country. But today he promised there […]
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