Health workers in Northern Ireland are to receive a pay rise recommended by independent salary review bodies, Stormont’s Department of Health has announced. The delayed move comes after civil servants
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The NHS is “bursting at the seams” as waiting lists hit a record high, while A&E departments experienced their worst performance on record, according to new data. Figures from NHS
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There is no money to increase a pay offer to NHS staff in order to avert industrial action in Wales without UK Government intervention, the Welsh health minister has said.
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All routine procedures at Belfast’s paediatric hospital have been postponed, after an increase in children presenting with symptoms of bacterial and viral infections. The action was being taken to prioritise
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A double killer who sexually abused the bodies of at least 101 women and girls in hospital mortuaries was branded “sick and twisted” by victims’ families as he was sentenced
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Thousands of ambulance workers and other NHS staff will strike on December 21 in a row over pay, unions have announced. The GMB, Unison and Unite are co-ordinating industrial action
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More than 90 family members of the victims of corpse abuser David Fuller will receive financial compensation under a new Government scheme. Close relatives are eligible to receive up to
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More must be done to return rehabilitation facilities to patients after they were repurposed during the Covid-19 pandemic, leading physiotherapists have said. The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) said physiotherapists
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Health and care employers have been urged to follow ethical recruitment guidelines after it emerged that more than 2,000 nurses have come to work in the UK from so-called red
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More than 10,000 ambulance workers have voted to strike across nine trusts in England and Wales, increasing the threat of widespread industrial action in the NHS before Christmas. The GMB
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