Union anger over end of Covid-related funding scheme for care workers
Unions are warning that care workers are set to be plunged back into “sick pay poverty” because of the ending of a scheme set up during the pandemic. Under the
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RCN urge extension to life assurance scheme for nursing staff who get Covid at work
The Government is being urged to extend a life assurance scheme for nursing staff who contract Covid at work. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said that after this week,
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Unions hit out as Javid announces end of free parking for hospital staff on Friday
Free parking for NHS staff working in hospitals in England will end on Friday, the Health Secretary has said. Parking fees were waived during the Covid-19 pandemic, but Sajid Javid
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Online portal launched to distribute Personal Assistant £500 recognition payments in Northern Ireland
A new online application portal has launched to enable special recognition payments to be made to social care Personal Assistants who worked during the pandemic. Launching the online portal which
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RCN call for urgent review to tackle soaring petrol prices that could impact patient care
Nurses must be given more cash for soaring petrol prices otherwise patient care could suffer, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has said. The union is calling on Chancellor Rishi
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Care workers among council staff to strike in equal pay compensation dispute
Council workers are to walk out over an equal pay dispute in two days of strike action that a union said will affect home care, schools and other services. Unison
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Apology to care home staff for U-turn on mandatory jabs ‘not right thing to do’, care minister
Apologising to care home staff following the Government’s U-turn on mandatory vaccination “doesn’t feel like the right thing to do”, the care minister has said. Gillian Keegan (pictured) said the
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Report warns social care sector faces extra pressure from unmet need during the pandemic
The social care sector could face extra pressure from the “unmet need” of people who avoided such services during the first and second waves of the pandemic, a report has
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Governor of the Bank of England urged to visit care homes and speak to workforce about pay
Union leaders have expressed hopes that the governor of the Bank of England will visit care homes and speak to workers about pay following his appearance before a committee of
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Union anger over Government’s recommendation of maximum 3% pay rise for health workers
Health unions have reacted with anger after discovering that the Government is recommending a maximum pay rise of 3% this year for NHS workers in England. Unison said the figure
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