Archiv: Steve Barclay


18.01.2023 - 17:20 [ GMB.org.uk ]

Ambulance workers announce four more national strike dates

Rachel Harrison, GMB National Secretary, said: 

“GMB’s ambulance workers are angry. In their own words ‘they are done’. 

„Our message to the Government is clear – talk pay now.

“Ministers have made things worse by demonising the ambulance workers who provided life and limb cover on strike days – playing political games with their scaremongering.

“The only way to solve this dispute is a proper pay offer. 

18.01.2023 - 16:04 [ Daily Mirror ]

Tearful nurse due to leave job today for £8,000 pay rise U-turned to join strike

Jade McCauley was due to start a completely new job tomorrow which would have bumped her yearly salary up by £8,000.

However, the community nurse at Northern General Hospital in Sheffield had a change of due to her passion for helping patients.

The 34-year-old spoke to the Mirror on the picket line outside the hospital today.

She also raised concerns about patient safety and called on Rishi Sunak to „spend a day in our shoes“.

12.01.2023 - 17:30 [ GMB Union / Twitter ]

The workforce crisis in the NHS means ambulances are being used as mini hospitals. The public deserve a better service than that, and our members want to deliver it. Time for the government to get serious and make these workers an offer.

12.01.2023 - 17:25 [ Sky.com ]

GMB union to consider up to six more ambulance strike dates after failed talks with health secretary

A meeting held this morning with Health Secretary Stephen Barclay was described as „constructive“ by one doctors‘ union leader. But Professor Philip Banfield, chair of council at the British Medical Association (BMA), said there was no mention of one-off payments for NHS staff.

12.01.2023 - 17:05 [ BBC ]

NHS facing more walkouts as ambulance staff strike

„People can‘t get appointments anymore so they put off going to the doctor and when it gets worse they come to us,“ he says.

He and colleagues are also struggling with the cost of living, Mr Mistry say.

„I‘m now having to think about how much heating I have on in the house – I have it on for two hours a day now.“

26.10.2022 - 05:48 [ Telegraph.co.uk ]

Rishi Sunak replaces third of Liz Truss‘s Cabinet as he vows to fix mistakes of her premiership

Three were given their old jobs – Dominic Raab, the Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary, Mr Gove, the Communities Secretary, and Steve Barclay, the Health Secretary.