This paper on health inequalities in Scotland was developed as our submission to the Health Inequalities Review commissioned by Neil
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Public Service FUTURES Issue 8 – Spring 2014
PublicServiceFutures08_Spring2014 Public Service FUTURES Issue 8 – Spring 2014: Property Tax Winners Results from new reports on funding local government
Read morePublic Service FUTURES Issue 7 – Winter 2013
unison-scotland.org/…/PublicServiceFutures07_Winter2013.pdf Public Service FUTURES Issue 7 – Winter 2013: Commission on Local Democracy; Regulatory Reform Bill; taxation in Scotland; and
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Public Service Futures 06 Summer 2013
Tax the Fat Cats Everyone in Scotland benefits from the existence of high quality public service. We all use them
Read morePublic Service FUTURES Issue 5 – Spring 2013
PublicServiceFutures05_Spring2013 Public Service FUTURES Issue 5 – Spring 2013: Taxing questions – local taxation need to be reformed; plus… Chamber of
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UNISON condemns ‘Swinney Tax’ on NHS workers
UNISON Scotland condemned the “Swinney Tax” on NHS workers today, as the Scottish Government published consultation proposals to increase employee
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UNISON’s response to the Scottish Government’s Sustainability and Seven Day Services Interim Taskforce Report
Date: Friday 6 March 2015 UNISON welcomes the interim report from the Scottish Government’s Taskforce for Sustainability and Seven Day
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UNISON report says that ‘mental health staff are working under increasing stress’
Date: Wednesday 04 March 2015 More than 8 in 10 (84%) of mental health staff say that their workload has increased, more
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Union offers safety advice to staff following hospital sexual assaults
Date: Thursday 15 January 2015 NHS union UNISON Scotland is advising staff to be more vigilant than normal after two
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NHS porters’ workloads and stress go up as their wages go down – new UNISON Scotland report
Date: Wed 17 December 2014 NHS Porters are under pressure and their workloads are going up while the value of
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