The London Ambulance Service is 50 years old this month. In fact the 1st April marked the day (no jokes about April fool please!). It is fifty years since a number of smaller Services came together to form one unified Ambulance Service for the capital city. The London Ambulance Service…

Like a lot of people at the moment,  I have fallen out of love with the London Ambulance Service.  These last two years have been painful. The recent Staff Survey results for the LAS read like divorce papers in a messy relationship break-up case. A lot of time, energy and money…

I have never, ever, seen a national NHS pay offer that had a separate, extra, set of proposals for Ambulance members. Why is this? It is because we stood together: strong, disciplined and organised! It is because, more than any other NHS staff group, we put our money where our…

Dear Santa, Great news! You don’t have to deliver the presents by Christmas Day any more as we have changed the targets! January 3rd will do! It’s got nothing to do with politics (or panic), honest! Oh, and by the way, can you help us out on your way through?

HELP! London Ambulance Staff are stuck in a vacuum!

What a magnificent turn-out for the four hour strike last Monday 13th October. All in all LAS UNISON organised 34 picket lines across the LAS. We attracted a lot of media attention around the stations in general and particularly at Waterloo HQ. Thanks go to all our members. Whatever role you…

My last two blog posts in April and June (Pay! We are worth it! and Missing In Action) have both dealt with pay. I have written about the looming dispute that has been building up against the Government over the divisive, unfair pay policy it has towards health workers. I have tried to explain why we…

Pay within the National Health Service has been cut from between 8% and 12% since 2010! Coincidently from the same time the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats took it upon themselves (they have no mandate from the British people) to butcher the NHS and sell the carcass on to the highest bidder,…

Let us be very clear: A dispute is looming within the National Health Service over pay! After pay freezes and real time pay cuts, the way this Government has treated the Pay Review Body (PRB) is disgraceful and unacceptable. Bearing in mind that the PRB recommendation of 1% was not…

Ironically, February, the month of Valentine and love, is also the month that most, if not all, Ambulance Services struggle, and because of that of course, staff struggle. I have never hidden the fact that, apart from a few very rare episodes, I have always loved working within the London Ambulance…