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...The health service in England has faced an unprecedented wave of industrial action that started late last year when nurses and other staff walked out....
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...“Everyone’s just exasperated,” said Helen Graham, 49, a nurse at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast....
...It’s possible that at the time of my peculiar meet-cute with Michael, the part of the nurse rubbed off on me....
...Industrial action by doctors, nurses and other staff has led to the cancellation of about 1.2mn operations and appointments....
...My anaesthetist popped her head around the curtain. “Back again!” she said with a smile....
...About 11 per cent of nurses, 17 per cent of nursing assistants and 8 per cent of doctors reported at least one unwanted sexual approach from patients or service users in the past 12 months....
...In November 1972, Roger Bontems, a 36-year-old peasants’ son from the Vosges region of eastern France, was guillotined for his part in a prison escape during which a fellow inmate cut the throats of a nurse...
...Nurses and other health staff including ambulance workers, nurses, physiotherapists and porters settled their pay disputes in May after unions backed a deal....
...The country has among the lowest number of doctors per head in the developed world, according to the OECD, and the very lowest excluding practitioners of traditional Korean medicine....
...Teachers and nurses are among staff who plan to walk out. Heaton-Harris has refused to release the £600mn from a £3.3bn package for the region unveiled before Christmas....
...Nurse Mary Seacole throws her arms open in wide embrace. Glittery drag queen Marsha P Johnson, Afro-Brazilian resistance fighter Zumbi dos Palmares and emperor Haile Selassie compete to hold court....
...Matthew Taylor, head of the NHS Confederation, which represents health groups, told Sky News on Sunday that employers understood the anger of nurses and doctors over pay and working conditions....
...But doctors, nurses, teachers and many other state employees have still lost ground compared to their private sector counterparts since 2010 as the government has squeezed public sector spending....
...Other wounded people lie on the hospital floor waiting for a doctor or a nurse to dress their wounds. There are not enough hospital beds, doctors or nurses, nor enough medicine or anaesthetic....
...The head of the Royal College of Nursing is to meet the UK health secretary after the union leader appealed directly to the prime minister to “get the job finished” by finalising a pay deal for nurses by...
...How many of us would be content to nurse a thimble of 15 per cent abv Argentinian merlot, I wonder, if we were down the pub or at a party?...
...Mohammad Sharifi-Moqaddam, secretary-general of Tehran-based NGO the Nurses House, said the number of nurses leaving the country each year had reached 3,000, with the sector now short of 100,000....
...Julian Kelly, chief financial officer for NHS England, has estimated the costs of walkouts by nurses, doctors and other health workers up to July at £1.1bn....
...But today we have nurses and teachers,” Calvacanti tells me. But the dwindling of the population, as residents seek better opportunities elsewhere, is a constant worry....
...The best development assistance we can give is to stop poaching doctors, nurses and midwives from the world’s poorest countries. Dr John Doherty Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK...
...She has been boosted by a CBS poll out earlier on Sunday that showed she would beat Biden in a hypothetical match-up by eight points, while the incumbent president and Trump would end a head-to-head contest...
...Teachers represented by the National Education Union are due to walk out on May 2, while all four of the UK’s major teaching unions — the NEU, the National Association of Head Teachers, the Association of...
...In a letter to hospital heads, it instead encouraged trusts to devote resources to “high priority” cases....
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