Sharon Graham: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- General Secretary of Unite union
- Quoted on
- Adult social care & reform, Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 8 Sept 2026
“Workers in social care and pensioners have been badly let down for years and years. Pure and simple. Britain's social care system is a national disgrace. It has been turned into a cash cow for profiteers making money on the back of people's suffering.”
What Sharon Graham has said
“The trust is being dishonest when it claims the forced rotations are about prioritising patient care. The changes are dangerous and unnecessary and are an attempt at the decommissioning by stealth of Bassetlaw's ICU.”
General Secretary of Unite union · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 8 Sept 2026 · Notts nurses striking against rotation scheme warned of pay deductions ↗
“It beggars belief that a Labour government should seek to ride roughshod over the health unions when deciding on NHS pay. For too long NHS workers have been overworked, underpaid and undervalued.”
General Secretary of Unite · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · Health unions call 3.3% pay rise for 1.4m NHS staff in England ‘an insult’ ↗
Where Sharon Graham has been quoted
- Unite responds to Andy Burnham's speech on adult social careunitetheunion.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Notts nurses striking against rotation scheme warned of pay deductionsnursingtimes.net · 8 Sept 2026
- Health unions call 3.3% pay rise for 1.4m NHS staff in England ‘an insult’theguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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