Health conference celebrates union ’ s re-banding wins
The ground-breaking re-banding of health care assistants (HCAs) achieved by UNISON branches in recent months was celebrated by health conference delegates in Bournemouth yesterday, during a busy afternoon of Agenda for Change motions.
Campaigns on overtime, reducing the working week and protecting the NHS pension were among the other key topics discussed by delegates.
Among the re-banding wins, last year thousands of HCAs across Manchester received up to £5,000 in backdated earnings, after a six-year battle to be re-banded, from band 2 to 3, in acknowledgement of the fact they were carrying out clinical duties way beyond ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - April 18, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Demetrios Matheou Tags: News 2023 National Health Conference pay fair for patient care Source Type: news
NHS spending over £1m a week on private ambulances for 999 callouts, says UNISON
The NHS is spending at least £61 million a year – over £1m a week or £167,000 a day – hiring private ambulances to attend emergency calls, says UNISON today (Monday) as its annual health conference opens in Bournemouth.
North West Ambulance Service spent more than £15m between January and December 2022 on private emergency services, according to data obtained by the union.
South Central Ambulance Service spent £19m over the past financial year, North East Ambulance Service is paying just under £7m annually, and South East Coast around £6m a year.
East Midlands Ambulance Service predicts a £9.5m spend in the ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - April 17, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Fatima Ayad Tags: News Press release Ambulance Sara Gorton Source Type: news
Trust must tackle "bullying and toxic" culture that is putting patient care at risk, says review - Dyer C.
A “bullying and toxic” environment pervades one of the UK’s biggest hospital trusts, staff told a review set up to investigate patient safety and governance.1
The rapid review of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) was es... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 3, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Commentary Source Type: news
Reducing waiting lists by repurposing a Nightingale hospital into a protected elective centre
Waiting lists for some procedures in Devon have been cut by converting a Nightingale hospital into a protected elective centre delivering additional orthopaedic, ophthalmology and diagnostic activity. Co-operation between clinicians from different trusts has resulted in innovative ways of working. The Devon Integrated Care System has worked with local trusts – principally the Royal Devon University Health Foundation Trust but also Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust and University Hospitals Plymouth Trust – to deliver the extra capacity. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - March 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Bristol healthcare assistants win over £1m in re-banding victory
Over 2,000 healthcare assistants in Bristol hospitals have been re-banded from Band 2 to Band 3 and received up to £4,000 backpay after a UNISON campaign revealed they had been performing clinical duties and patient observations above their grade.
This is the latest victory in UNISON’s ‘pay fair for patient care’ campaign, which saw hospital workers in Manchester win significant back pay last year.
The union has now won significant backpay for members working in the two biggest hospitals in Bristol: North Bristol Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.
Workers with over four years’ ...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - March 16, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Janey Starling Tags: Article HCA pay HCAs health pay fair for patient care Source Type: news
‘ BAME people don ’ t have enough voice in the system ’ says British Indian Nurses Association founder
Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) nurses need a stronger a voice in nursing and in the NHS, says the founder of the British Indian Nurses Association (BINA). Marimouttou Coumarassamy, founder and chairman of BINA and deputy chief operating officer at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, told Nursing in Practice that the... Read moreThe post ‘BAME people don’t have enough voice in the system’ says British Indian Nurses Association founder appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - March 15, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Wiliam Hunter Tags: Latest news Source Type: news
NHS surgeons use high-tech 3D printers to create replacement ribs for cancer patients
Surgeons at Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust have been conducting a trial where replacement ribs are designed specifically for an individual patient who has had a tumor removed. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
‘Territorial’ foundation trusts must be scrapped, says Hewitt review adviser
Foundation trusts must be scrapped to truly change the culture and behaviours within local systems, says an FT chair who is working on a government-commissioned review of integrated care systems. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 27, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
‘Territorial’ foundation trusts must be scrapped, says Hewitt review member
Foundation trusts must be scrapped to truly change the culture and behaviours within local systems, says an FT chair who is working on a government-commissioned review of integrated care systems. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 27, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Derby maternity deaths might have been prevented - report
The deaths were under the care of University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust over a 16-month period. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - February 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
CEO resigns from trust told to merge leadership
The chief executive of North Tees and Hartlepool Foundation Trust, which was ordered by NHS England to merge its leadership team with a neighbour, is to step down in September. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 15, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
New phase III data show Roche ’s Vabysmo rapidly improved vision and reduced retinal fluid in people with retinal vein occlusion (RVO)
Vabysmo met its primary endpoint in two clinical trials, BALATON and COMINO, showing non-inferior visual acuity gains compared toafliberceptMoreVabysmo patients showed an absence of blood vessel leakage in the retina compared toaflibercept in a pre-specified exploratory endpointIf approved, RVO would be the third indication forVabysmo in addition toneovascular or ‘wet’ age-related macular degeneration and diabetic macular edemaBasel, 10 February 2023 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced positive new data from two global phase III studies, BALATON and COMINO, evaluating Vabysmo ® (faricimab) in macular ...
Source: Roche Investor Update - February 10, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
New phase III data show Roche ’s Vabysmo rapidly improved vision and reduced retinal fluid in people with retinal vein occlusion (RVO)
Vabysmo met its primary endpoint in two clinical trials, BALATON and COMINO, showing non-inferior visual acuity gains compared toafliberceptMoreVabysmo patients showed an absence of blood vessel leakage in the retina compared toaflibercept in a pre-specified exploratory endpointIf approved, RVO would be the third indication forVabysmo in addition toneovascular or ‘wet’ age-related macular degeneration and diabetic macular edemaBasel, 10 February 2023 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced positive new data from two global phase III studies, BALATON and COMINO, evaluating Vabysmo ® (faricimab) in macular ...
Source: Roche Media News - February 10, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Hospital staff in Liverpool are coming home
Around 670 staff at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will be brought back in-house on 1 April this year.
Staff at two hospital sites, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen, who work as cleaners, porters, caterers and in other domestic services will be transferred onto NHS terms and conditions once the outsourced contracts come to an end at the end of March.
The move comes after a merger of hospital trusts in Liverpool in 2019, creating Liverpool University Hospitals NHS foundation trust, which left staff in similar jobs on vastly different terms and conditions depending on whether the services at their hospital...
Source: UNISON Health and safety news - February 3, 2023 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Simon Jackson Tags: Article News health insourcing Liverpool NHS Agenda for Change outsourcing Source Type: news
Half of executive directors leaving scandal-hit trust
More than half the executive board members at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust are leaving in the space of a few months – leaving only two who have served at least three years. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - January 26, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
