The number of nurses and midwives leaving the professions has risen amid a warning more departures could follow without further efforts to tackle the pressures on both occupations brought on
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Stormont is facing renewed calls to introduce vaccine passports after escalating pressures on the health system saw ambulances diverted away from a main hospital. Craigavon Area Hospital in Co Armagh
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Nursing leaders have highlighted 10 pressures on health and social care services which they say have created “unsustainable, untenable” conditions. A report from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said
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More than half a million social care staff in England have not been recorded as having received two coronavirus vaccine doses, figures show. Some 542,196 workers in care homes, domiciliary
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The NHS is “on its knees”, leading health experts have warned, as a raft of data for England shows the service buckling under pressure. The King’s Fund health think tank
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A care home boss has backed the new mandatory vaccine rules despite them causing her to lose three staff. Lucy Craig (pictured), who operates three residential and dementia care homes
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A pharmaceutical firm has asked for an apology and has not ruled out future legal action after the Health Secretary told MPs its coronavirus vaccine would not get approval for
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An estimated 2.8 million people with mental health problems across the UK have fallen into council tax debt during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a charity. The Money and Mental
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Care homes are embroiled in disciplinary proceedings over the Government’s “shambolic” mandatory vaccination policy for staff, further adding to the workforce pressures they face, a care group has said. The
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A care home manager who has lost a sixth of her staff because of the Government’s mandatory vaccination policy has told of the anguish of reading their “heartbreaking” resignation letters.
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