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Health Service, Latest News 15/05/2024

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust reprimanded for “serious, harmful” data breach

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced it has reprimanded South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for a data breach which resulted in a disclosure containing sensitive information to a unauthorised family member. In November 2022,…

Health Service, Health Services 05/02/2018

NHS publishes £300m contract for new surgery robots

NHS publishes £300m contract for new surgery robots Rhiannon Curry of the Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/01/27/nhs-publishes-300m-contract-new-surgery-robots/ Robots which carry out heart surgery or remove cancerous tumours could soon be more common after the NHS launched a search for…

Health Service, W.E.U. News 22/05/2017

Newly Qualified Nurses in NHS Scotland paid £300py more than Nurses in NHS England.

The Workers of England Union has campaigned and continues to campaign for fair funding for our nurses in England. Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister for Scotland openly stated on the Andrew Marr show (14/05)…

Health Service, W.E.U. News 12/05/2017

NHS England boss pledges to continue investing in general practice

Whilst the Workers of England supports the continued investment in General Practice it is the level of investment in NHS England’s front line staff that we want increasing, this my not necessarily mean higher wages…

Health Service 03/04/2017

Doctors could be forced to work for NHS for at least five years under plans for ‘home grown’ expansion

Dear member It costs the taxpayer £230,000 to train a doctor, over and above fees paid by individuals. After having been trained a self-employed doctors can earn in excess of £100,000 a year. It is not unheard of…

Health Service, W.E.U. News 10/01/2017

Labour’s Great PFI Swindle & Tory Austerity threatens the survival of the English Health Service.

“The English Health Service is struggling under the massive PFI Debts left to them by the previous Labour Government and current Tory Austerity increase the financial burden even further. They both need to held to…

Health Service, W.E.U. News 07/09/2016

Under-fire health trust created new job for ex-chief executive who resigned

Dear Members Please read the following article which deeply concerns us, the article highlights the mass failure of the former Chief Executive of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, however her mass failure is rewarded…

Health Service, W.E.U. News 05/07/2016

Ministers ‘looking to impose doctor contract’

Ministers ‘looking to impose doctor contract’ By Nick Triggle BBC Health correspondent Image copyright AFP Ministers are paving the way to impose a contract on junior doctors in England after the profession rejected the deal that had…

Health Service, W.E.U. News 23/05/2016

Simon Steven, Chief Executive of NHS England is a hypocrite

Simon Steven, Chief Executive of NHS England is a hypocrite On the 22nd May 2016 whilst discussing Brexit on the Andrew Marr show Simon Stevens, the former Labour councillor for Brixton, in the London Borough of Lambeth, the Chief…

Health Service, W.E.U. News 22/05/2016

WEU wins case at Nursing and Midwifery Council

After a long a protracted case, involving a large NHS Trust in England, the Workers of England Union gets our member re-instated with employer and also wins his case at the Nursing and Midwifery Council….

Health Service, W.E.U. News 08/04/2016

Former foreign secretary urges Britain’s departure from EU to ‘protect our NHS’

The WEU agrees with critics who fear the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and the US would lead to American health providers targeting the NHS. Lord Owen initially campaigned as health minister…

Health Service 29/02/2016

“£500,000” cost of NHS legal fight

Andrea Collitt, Chief Reporter / 05:00 Monday 29 February 2016 / News THE cost to the public purse is the latest chapter in a bitter legal row between a health trust and a nurse. Eddie…

Health Service 20/11/2015

Increase in attacks on ‘punch bag’ hospital nurses

19 NOVEMBER, 2015 BY NICOLA MERRIFIELD Reporter for Nursing Times Physical attacks on nurses and other staff working in NHS acute services have gone up by nearly 10% in the past year, rising to more than 19,000,…

Catering Sector, Cleaning Services, Hauliers, Health Service, Night Workers, Professional Drivers, Public Transport, Retail Sector, Security Industry, Shift Workers, W.E.U. News 07/08/2015

Britain’s 3 million night workers need fair rights to work-life balance, says British TUC

A new report published yesterday (Wednesday) by the British TUC, A Hard Day’s Night, shows that night working has grown since the recession, and there are now over three million employees who are regular night-workers in…