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Meet Your Reps: Jenny Owen, nurse, MiP health and safety rep and a manager in NHS England’s North West region, talks to Craig Ryan about championing the underdog and why she still needs a “clinical fix”.

Meet Your Reps: Proud to be both a manager and a paramedic, new MiP rep Glenn McPeak says he wants to speak up for managers in the ambulance service who feel unsupported, undervalued and under pressure.

Meet Your Reps: Prince Obike works at the forefront of change in the NHS while supporting MiP members as a union MiP rep and National Committee member. He talks to us about his incredibly varied career and the real value of management jobs.

Meet Your Reps: Two of MiP’s most experienced reps, Dave Whatton and Sara Saville from the Black Country ICB, talk about negotiating organisational change and supporting MiP members through turbulent and uncertain times.

Rhys McKenzie reports on MiP’s first ever Reps’ Day, and explains how MiP's growing network of workplace reps supports members and boosts the union’s membership and influence.

Meet Your Reps:Often outspoken in defence of members, Richard Carthew, MiP rep at NHS Digital and National Committee member for London, sees his union work as a way to ensure staff are treated with respect and the NHS is better run.

Meet Your Reps:Jayne Thomas, business and delivery manager at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, talks about her career and how she hopes to build MiP’s profile and membership in the North West.

Times are tough, but MiP's National Committee has set a challenging but optimistic agenda for the next two years.

Our guide to organisational culture is launched today. The guide aims to help you play a full part in creating a healthy workplace culture in your organisation. Find out more and download your copy here.

We have a vacancy for one of MiP's three seats on the FDA's Executive Committee. Find out more here.

Meet your reps: Jeremy Baskett, one of MiP’s most experienced reps, explains how being active in the union opened doors and helped him to become a better manager.

Your chance to change the NHS workplace after the pandemic by supporting members and developing reps at the union for the UK’s health and care managers.

Meet your reps: Tarlochan Boparai from Kent and Medway CCG explains how becoming an MiP rep has given him new skills and a sense of empowerment at work.

Local MiP reps and link members are entitled to time off for their trade union duties. Our legal advisers explain your rights.

Our training for link members and MiP reps will give you the skills you need to help your colleagues and represent MiP in your workplace. Find out more about the four courses we have planned for this year.

It’s illegal for your manager or employer to victimise you for being a member of MiP or carrying out MiP activities. Here we explain the legal protection available to you.

MiP is asking link members and reps to tell us how we can develop their work and provide them with better support.

MiP’s first eight reps are already in action, following a successful pilot training course in May. The union’s development programme for reps and link members will offer you a new level of workplace support.

The days of hostile bosses looking down their noses at active trade unionists are long gone – today’s MiP activists see real benefits for their NHS careers.

We’re refreshing our annual gathering – to give members a bigger say in setting MiP’s priorities and more time to network and support each other.