Low-paid NHS staff working in operating theatres across Leeds will be on strike next week in their ongoing pay dispute. Theatre assistants, who are on the lowest grade in the NHS, will walk out for five days on Monday (16 February). They want to be regraded and paid properly for the extra duties they say they’re […]
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Commenting on new measures announced by the health secretary aimed at boosting pay and career progression for nurses, UNISON head of health Helga Pile said: “National standards for supporting newly qualified nurses as they start their careers are welcome. “But for the NHS to deliver the standards of care patients need, nursing and other healthcare roles must […]
NHS staff who work in operating theatres across Leeds will walk out for five days later this week in a continuing dispute over money they are owed. A meeting with hospital managers earlier today was unproductive, so workers are stepping up the strike with five days of walkouts, which will begin on Thursday (29 January). […]
NHS staff who work in operating theatres in hospitals across Leeds are to strike for two days later this week in a dispute over money they are owed. Theatre assistants employed across four hospital sites run by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust* will walk out at 8am on Thursday (18 December) for 48 hours. The […]
NHS staff working in hospitals across Leeds are set to strike in a dispute over missing wages. Theatre assistants employed across four hospital sites run by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust* have backed the walkouts because they’re unhappy their employer has refused to pay them for work previously carried out when they were on the wrong grade. The workers […]
More than 1,500 hospital workers in East Yorkshire and North East Lincolnshire are celebrating after being promoted and given four years’ back pay as part of a deal to ensure they’re paid properly for the work they do. The healthcare assistants had been carrying out tasks – such as taking blood, performing electrocardiogram tests and […]
NHS staff working in theatres at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust are to be balloted for strikes in a dispute over back pay. The workers have been employed on band 2 of the NHS Agenda for Change pay scale, which covers ‘personal tasks’ such as feeding and bathing patients. The trust is in the process […]
A group of rehabilitation support workers based at Kendray Hospital in Barnsley are demanding to be paid properly for the increasingly complex work they do. The staff, who provide care to patients in the community and are employed by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust, have held a series of protests outside Kendray Hospital, and […]
Band 2 rehabilitation support workers in Barnsley have launched a petition as part of their campaign for managers to move them up a level on the NHS Agenda for Change pay scale, to reflect the types of tasks they are required to complete. The lone workers, who are employed by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS […]
A group of band 2 theatres staff in Leeds met with the chief executive of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to call on him to pay them fairly for the work they do. Staff gather before marching through the hospital grounds to the meeting. Staff are currently employed on band 2 of the NHS Agenda […]
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