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
Read More
Covid testing in people being discharged from hospital to care homes should continue, a representative body has said as it warned of potentially “serious consequences” in ending the practice. The
Read More
The sentencing of a woman who stabbed a care worker to death has been postponed as no “suitable” secure hospital has been found, a court has heard. Kellyanne McNaughton, 33,
Read More
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
Read More
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)
Read More
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)
Read More
The Scottish Government “dismissed” concerns about the airborne transmission of Covid during the pandemic, an inquiry has heard. Colin Poolman, director of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Scotland,
Read More
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
Read More
Dozens of healthcare workers are bringing legal action against the NHS, claiming they were provided with “inadequate” PPE and contracted Covid-19 while treating patients, the High Court has heard. The
Read More
Covid infection in care homes was mainly spread by workers, an inquiry has heard. Dr Chris Williams, a consultant epidemiologist for Public Health Wales, told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that
Read More