Around 1.5 million council workers have been offered a pay rise of at least £1,925 from April, it has been announced. Employers representing 360 local authorities in England, Wales and
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Nurses have agreed to pause major strike action as they begin “intensive talks” with the Government with a view to finding a settlement in the bitter dispute over pay. The
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A new expert group has been set up to improve working conditions for nurses and midwives. Chaired by Scotland’s Health Secretary Humza Yousaf, the Nursing and Midwifery Taskforce will develop
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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has announced a significant escalation in strike action at more than 120 NHS employers in England in the increasingly bitter dispute over pay and
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Physiotherapists across the country have walked out after their union accused the Government of being “intransigent” over pay negotiations. Action took place across 33 hospital trusts on Thursday as a
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The Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA) is embarking on the second phase of a major campaign to recruit new registered childminders in urban and rural areas to help establish childminding places
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The Government has been accused of being “on strike” itself during the biggest walkout in NHS history. The service saw a “hugely disrupted day” after tens of thousands of workers
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Staff at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have started voting for industrial action in a dispute over pay. Members of five unions – Unison, the PCS, Prospect, the Royal College
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Planned strikes next week by nurses, ambulance workers and other health staff in Wales have been called off after a new pay offer from the Welsh government. The GMB was
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Around six in 10 people with long Covid in the UK are likely to have been suffering the symptoms for a year or more, figures suggest. Some 1.2 million of
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