Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire

The London Ambulance Service has been given permission by the UK Border Agency to go Down Under to help fill 250 vacancies

UNISON Cymru/Wales has called on the Prime Minister and health minister Jeremy Hunt to apologise to the NHS workforce in Wales, after a Nuffield Trust report showed that there is no evidence for the claim that health services in Wales are failing to keep pace with any other part of the 

UNISON has attacked the Tax Payers’ Alliance after it described jobs in the NHS as “unnecessary”.

Union says it has never had such angry feedback from members

Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric has called for political leaders to extinguish “the discourse of fear” that plagues immigration’s contribution to the economy.

GMB members at Ealing take action over Compass Medirest bosses refuse to budge

Employees of provider that pulled out of new 111 helpline contracts, including 140 nurses, put on notice of redundancy

The 111 phone service for urgent but non-emergency NHS help has been beset with problems and complaints since it started in April.

The number of senior nurses who oversee patient care in the organisation fell from 4,874 in May 2010 to 3,876 in August.

Salaries of NHS executives had soared by 6.1% since 2012, while nurses’ pay had gone up by just 1.6%

Hundreds of thousands of health workers to be consulted over industrial action

HEALTH boards are spending millions of pounds every year hiring people for “non-jobs” such as spin doctors, equality officers and “green” enforcers, according to new figures.

Labour accuses government of handing out redundancy cheques 'like confetti' while thousands are denied pay rises

Since 2010, 2,570 people made redundant have been rehired in permanent jobs after Government shelled out £1.39billion of taxpayers’ money on leaving packages

David Cameron accused of handing out cheques like 'confetti' as it is revealed one in six managers given redundancy pay outs are now back working in the health service

Brits in the job are highly sought after in countries such as Australia and Dubai where they can often earn upwards of £10,000 a year more than they do here

Yorkshire ambulance staff have voted to take strike action over changes in shift patterns which could mean paramedics going more than 10 hours without a meal break and staff being forced to work 12 hour shifts. 

Hundreds of members of staff at a failed provider to the troubled NHS 111 helpline have been told that they face losing their jobs.