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London HCAs back on strike in dispute over pay
Healthcare assistants (HCAs) at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust have gone back on strike, walking out for the second time…
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Claims of ‘ethnicity pay gap’ as HCAs continue walk-out
Healthcare assistants (HCAs) in South East London are facing an “ethnicity pay gap”, strikers claimed today as they continue their…
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First London HCAs join campaign to demand up-banding
Healthcare support workers at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Foundation Trust have begun a 48-hour strike in what their union has…
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HCAs ‘still invisible’ more than 10 years after major review
A decade after the Cavendish Review into the role of healthcare assistants (HCAs), and other clinical support workers, a new…
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‘Taken for granted’: Plymouth HCAs plan further strikes
A fresh round of strikes over pay have been called by healthcare support workers at a hospital trust in the…
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HCAs vote to strike as national pay campaign continues
The latest in a series of healthcare assistant (HCA) strikes has been called at an NHS trust in the East…
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NHS told to ‘do the right thing’ and pay HCAs properly
Unison has demanded that NHS employers increase pay for healthcare assistants (HCAs) who are performing duties above their pay grade,…
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Plymouth HCAs latest to strike over pay and banding
Healthcare support workers at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth have finished a two-day strike over pay. The 48-hour stoppage, which ended…
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Trust trials Marie Curie HCAs in emergency department
Specialist palliative care healthcare assistants (HCAs) are being piloted at the emergency department of an NHS trust in England, to…
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Pay campaign sees 35,000 HCAs and some nurses up-banded
A campaign to make sure health workers are being paid fairly for the work they do has seen 35,000 healthcare…
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