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...Dr Keith Klintworth, managing director of insurer VitalityHealth, said the reasons more people were choosing to buy health insurance “are more complex than NHS waits alone”....
...But it has not been expanded beyond this select few groups, which includes nurses and mountain guides....
...The protracted dispute is adding to disruption caused by nurses’ strikes earlier in the year, with more than 820,000 operations and appointments cancelled as a result of NHS industrial action so far....
...Hugo Keith, the Inquiry’s KC, expressed horror this week that the cabinet wasn’t making the decisions....
...Nurses on Wednesday will begin voting on a pay offer of 5 per cent next year and a one-off sum of at least £1,655 for 2022-23, which the Royal College of Nursing has urged its members to accept....
...exchanges between the government and unions, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called this week for “an honest, grown-up conversation about what’s affordable for the country” on public sector pay, suggesting nurses...
...Federica Cocco and Keith Fray Our other charts of the week . . ....
...More strikes are looming in the UK as schoolteachers vote on whether to take industrial action, adding to walkouts from nurses, train drivers and other public workers....
...Nor can they accept this offer that does nothing to address the decades of below-inflation pay increases,” said Courtney and Bousted....
...Nurses are striking because people are dying.” Health secretary Steve Barclay said patients would “understandably be worried by the prospect of further strike action by nurses”....
...But Kevin Courtney, NEU general secretary, disputed that the £680mn meant the pay offer was fully funded....
...Kevin Courtney, outgoing general secretary of the National Education Union, said he was “confident” its ballot would pass....
...Of these everyone will have their favourite — Courtney Love once told me hers was Money — but mine is London Fields....
...Keith’s brother Kevin is very, very loosely depicted in the film as played by Pete Davidson. You know, Keith cut off all of his social media, wasn’t updating them....
...Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, joint general secretaries of the National Education Union, said on Monday the government had “squandered an opportunity to avoid strike action” and was “unwilling to seriously...
...Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, joint general secretaries of the union, said the UK government had “sat on their hands” in the face of pleas to increase teacher pay....
...Admittedly their president is Keith Weed, but do we really have to have whole gardens of weeds at Chelsea, even from the Royal Entomological Society? I am sceptical....
...By contrast, advertised pay for nurses is barely rising, even after their services were in such demand as a result of the pandemic....
...But Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the nurses’ vote had been an “inspiration” to support staff and he was confident the NEU would meet the thresholds....
...Letters in response to this article: The Addenbrooke’s robot says a lot about the NHS / From Keith Wade, Former Trustee & Treasurer, Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust, Saffron Walden, Essex, UK NHS must shed...
...Givanni, born in British Guiana, was sent for in 1957 by her mother, a Red Cross nurse recruited to London four years earlier to help staff the NHS (June’s father remained in the Caribbean)....
...UK trade unions representing teachers, nurses and doctors are gearing up to reject proposed pay rises of up to 5 per cent and ballot their members on strike action....
...She has been an emergency nurse practitioner in south London for 25 years, and still found time for part-time courses in design and horticulture....
...With striking nurses and ambulance workers in deadlock with the government over pay, and the results of teacher ballots for industrial action due in early January, unions are increasingly debating whether...
...Joe Courtney, who manages three pubs, said he could no longer wait for the government to detail the support....
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