Not a normal day for NHS workers
On a normal Wednesday morning Emily Heron would be taking patients’ blood pressure or doing observations...
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Category: student nurses
The government’s plans to axe the NHS bursary place our health service in jeopardy
We need to find a way to address the funding crisis facing students in the NHS – but not by plunging those same students into debt, and putting the future of our health service on the line.
The...
UNISON members join People’s Assembly march in London
Student nurses take their fight to save the NHS bursary back onto the capital's streets
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Hospitals need 15,000 more nurses as government cuts student bursaries, says UNISON
Responding to a report today (Tuesday) from NHS Improvement on the rising demand for nurses in the NHS, UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis said: “Reports that the NHS needs another 15,000 nurses...
Ask your MP to sign EDM on the NHS bursary
If you're concerned about the plans to scrap the NHS bursary in England, please contact your MP and ask them to sign EDM 1081
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UNISON says junior doctors have its full support
Commenting on the second day of strike action by junior doctors over threatened cuts to the pay they get for working at weekends and at nights, UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis said: “Jeremy...
How safe is your staffing?
UNISON will run its fifth annual safe NHS staffing levels survey on 9 February and is asking all members in the nursing family to take part
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‘Bursary or Bust’ is the cry as NHS students rally across England
Rallies and marches back the NHS bursary in London, Manchester and Newcastle
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Axing NHS bursaries will saddle nurses with debt until retirement, warns UNISON
Nurses and other healthcare workers will be paying off their student loans almost until the day they retire UNISON is warning today (Saturday), as student nurses prepare to take part in protests...
Plans to axe student bursaries will deter many from careers in nursing, says UNISON
Hundreds of student nurses are expected at a UNISON-supported protest outside the Department of Health later today (Wednesday) against government plans to axe the NHS bursary for nursing degrees. In...