Happy Burns' Night!

It's so important we recognise what 100,000s of clinical & operational support workers contribute to health care. They're not often in the limelight, so loving today's #OurHealthHeroes awards at QEII

We are proud to share that our Operational Services Group has launched its landmark Admin Charter for Change at Health Conference 2024. The charter be ordered and downloaded from the UNISON catalogue: shop.unison.site/product/admin-…

Waiting for my MMR vaccine (better late than never I guess). The forces of minimalism have swept through this GP practice. Where's all the stuff? See below for what's missing.

We at @miphealth recently told the Senior Salaries Review Body about our NHS executive members' morale. 'You can't cut your way to a productive NHS' is the boiled down message. For the 6 minute version read this miphealth.org.uk/home/news-camp…

Celebrate Lesbian Visibility Week with UNISON LGBT+ Check out how to be part of change in the workplace ⏩ unison.org.uk/out #LVW24 #LesbianVisibilityWeek

The Three Graces

Today is the DAY Administrative Professionals Day. THANK YOU to each and every one of the administrative professionals working across health and care. You are kind, compassionate and experts in your field. Have a great day celebrating each other. #adminday2024 ⁦Proud2bOps - National Network⁩

We could not function without them. 👏🏽👏🏿👏🏻👏🏼👏🏽 Thanks to our amazing admin staff across West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership

In a few weeks' time, I'm looking forward to joining - under Alastair McLellan's god tier chairing - the panel deciding on the HSJ top 50 NHS chief executives. What should we be looking for? (Besides membership of my union.) Answers in a tweet. #ManagingOurNHS

Today I learned that the Italian for 'teams invite' is 'teams invite'. My vocab expands daily. Grazie collega mio! Corrado Valle

What market research gave rise to this ???

With quiet pride (& a sense it was a bit ineffective) I've used this spurtle to porridgate for years. Then mum actual Scot saw me in action. Much (crushing) guffawing. I was using it upside-down. Wrong end of stick, yet again. Any like experiences?

With the deepest regret but due to my ill health, need for surgery & recovery I will step down from Nursing and Midwifery Council shortly It's been a privilege to be the Chief Executive & Registrar for 800k nursing & midwifery professionals working on behalf of the public I'm gutted I can't continue

Today we see a milestone laid with the publications of the 2023 NHS Staff Survey results for bank-only workers. Reports are presented @ national & trust level both report groups Include Bank WRES & WDES data. Bank Worker Results - NHS Staff Survey (nhsstaffsurveys.com)

There is no other NHS staff group a party manifesto would proudly pledge it was slashing aside from managers. Yet, as James Ball says, all benchmarking shows NHS is already undermanaged & previous attempts to cut managers like 2012 Act resulted in a less not more productive NHS

Two NHS bits of the Conservative manifesto presented together without irony ... Managers, famously unassociated - throughout the economy - with making things work better

Going to #NHSConfedExpo? Come visit the MiP stand at A42. We're running a poll on statutory regulation of managers, launching our Managing Our NHS campaign and have lots of goodies to give out. Come along and say hello to the team!

Key message for incoming health ministers: Don't talk yourselves - an easy thing to do - into another round of structural redisorganisation; it will gum up the machine you want smashing away on your health priorities; instead, focus on stability & accountability for managers.

Ciao, Confed. Great couple of days meeting people from across the NHS and adjacent organisations.