Report says YTS trainees should be encouraged.

The long-awaited study on the introduction of the Youth Training Scheme into the health service has concluded that the scheme is not only feasible but should be encouraged as a means 'of providing high quality training for support workers'.

Health unions critical of cash boost for NHS.

Health unions have slammed the Government's extra £ 100 million cash boost for the National Health Service as being too little too late.

Cool response to report on YTS placements.

The publication of the Price Waterhouse feasibility report on YTS has drawn a cool response from the nursing unions.

Nurses said.

Members of the three main health unions took to the streets last week as the Day of Action gathered pace.

Another choice to the NHS.

There has always been a consensus among ardent defenders of the National Health Service, such as health unions and nursing organisations, that the basic principles of a taxation-funded service free at the point of delivery should remain.