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...Litigation funders are sometimes branded “ambulance chasers” who exploit a bad situation to turn a quick profit without much regard for the ethics of a case....
...Harrison said at the time the new division, which now manages £72.3bn, was a core part of “delivering on its growth strategy”....
...At the end of the 19th century, London County Council was building social housing, fire stations, clinics, ambulance stations, bandstands, parks, street furniture, public toilets, schools and major engineering...
...NHS patients struggle to get ambulances or wait days in emergency rooms for treatment; strikes are spreading from train drivers to nurses to teachers....
...Rachel Harrison, national secretary of the GMB, the union that represents ambulance workers and other NHS staff, said on Wednesday that “significant reforms” were needed before it would re-engage....
...A Tory victory is also anticipated in Bicester and Woodstock in the blue-leaning county of Oxfordshire....
...GMB members in the Welsh Ambulance service have also agreed to suspend strike action on Monday pending further talks with the Welsh government and the region’s ambulance trust....
...“I’ve never seen conditions like this — even a nice mountain bike doesn’t work,” said festival-goer Marshall Mosher on TikTok on Sunday....
...“Our message to the government is clear — talk pay now,” said Rachel Harrison, national secretary of the GMB, which said the refusal of the prime minister and chancellor to find more funding to break the...
...This could be an ideal time to book a spring break — mine is going to be a long weekend in the delightful English county of Suffolk. But don’t just take my word for it, read the HTSI holiday guide....
...The union Unite will also take out its members that same day at three ambulance services....
...“Our message to the government is clear — talk pay now,” said Rachel Harrison, GMB national secretary....
...NHS England has urged the public to call 999 services only in the case of a “medical or mental health emergency”, and warned that patients whose conditions were not life-threatening “may not get an ambulance...
...Peter Harrison, chief executive of FTSE 100 asset manager Schroders, welcomed the reforms overall, saying: “We need to get to a position where we ensure that people save for the long term and take adequate...
...Rachel Harrison, national secretary of the GMB union, said the offer was “far from perfect” but that it was “the best that can be achieved at this stage”....
...“Firefighters have been made an offer . . . but the government still won’t talk pay with ambulance workers,” said Rachel Harrison, national secretary of the GMB union....
...GMB members in the NHS and ambulance service voted by 56 to 44 per cent, on a turnout of 51 per cent, to accept the deal....
...Rachel Harrison, GMB’s national secretary, defended the timing of ambulance worker walkouts, saying staff were experiencing “stress, burnout, exhaustion”....
...Focus on the local They were also won by focusing on local not national or international issues like ambulance waiting times in the case of North Shropshire....
...Rachel Harrison, national secretary of the GMB, which also represents ambulance workers, said the talks had fallen “well short” of anything that could stop this week’s strikes but there had been “some engagement...
...It will also walk out at the franchise C2C, which runs services in Essex, on December 17....
...This penetration of Soho by a new train service is itself no small change since Nairn’s day, when Dr Beeching’s rail cuts were in full swing....
...As Rupert Harrison, now an adviser to Hunt, tweeted, “Starting with tax cuts is looking down the wrong end of the telescope, but tempting because it’s easier....
...Storm surges reaching from between 12 to 18 feet are expected to hit the south-west Florida coastline from Englewood to Bonita Beach, the US National Weather Service said....
...Fema deployed 300 ambulances and federal medical teams to Florida and was tracking medical needs across the state’s hospitals, care facilities and dialysis centres....
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