The health and social care visa route was introduced in August 2020 as a response to labour shortages after Brexit and the COVID pandemic. Now, the independent chief inspector of
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Hospices are facing a “devastating” financial crisis because of rising staff costs which are putting services at risk, a charity has warned. The chief executive of Hospice UK, Toby Porter,
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The First Minister has been warned that local councils’ refusal to engage with equal pay claims could have “disastrous” consequences for Scottish communities. GMB Scotland has called on Humza Yousaf
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More than 27,000 healthcare workers are set to receive two one-off payments worth up to £3,000, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has said. The payments – worth
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Thousands of care home workers have won improved sick pay rights, a union has announced. The GMB said 19,000 staff at HC-One have accepted a deal that gives them the
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NHS England has been over-optimistic and there are “significant weaknesses” in its plan for the future of the health service workforce, a report has found. The National Audit Office (NAO)
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Junior doctors in England have voted by a huge margin to continue taking industrial action for the next six months in their long-running pay dispute. The British Medical Association (BMA)
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The Home Office’s explanation for not consulting on its ban on foreign care workers bringing family members to the UK was “unconvincing”, a Lords committee said adding that it had
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The number of people coming to the UK on a health and care visa is more than five times what it was when the route was introduced three years ago,
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The Government is being urged to make payments worth several thousand pounds on top of salaries to prevent nursing staff leaving the NHS and to tackle a worsening “workforce crisis”.
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