Nurses at Seattle Children’s Hospital say they feel unsafe at work and have demanded protection.
Police responded to multiple
The parents of a little girl who almost died in hospital just days after she was born believe that their daughter was one of Lucy Letby’s first victims.
Mike Whitfield and his wife Victoria are seeking justice for their daughter and other possible Letby victims after the killer nurse was yesterday convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to take the lives of six more.
The couple’s daughter, Felicity, suffered a catastrophic lung collapse three days after being born prematurely
Chants of “freedom” echoed through the streets outside an aid facility in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, on Monday where just days earlier an American nurse and her daughter were kidnapped by armed men.
Hundreds of Haitians marched through the gang-ravaged zone, bursting with anger at the abduction, which has become a symbol of the worsening violence plaguing the Caribbean nation.
New Hampshire woman Alix Dorsainvil had been working as a community nurse for the religious and humanitarian aid group El Roi
England will be short of 570,000 NHS workers by 2036 without a massive boost in recruitment, officials have warned.
Staff shortages have been blamed for the ailing service’s struggles in dealing with the Covid backlog and deteriorating A&E performance.
Currently, the NHS has around 150,000 vacancies.
But a leaked version of the NHS’s long-awaited workforce plan warns that toll could treble without urgently bolstering the workforce, particularly with Brit medics. The NHS currently employs around 1.6million people.
However, the Treasury
Nurses in England are today taking part in a 48-hour strike, in the latest chapter of their never-ending pay dispute with No10.
More than 30,000 NHS workers are expected to take to picket lines, in what insiders believe will be the biggest day of industrial action to ever hit the health service.
Up to 10,000 ambulance workers also holding their own industrial action at the same time.
Union bosses claim their members need an inflation busting pay boost to help
Nurses have taken to picket lines in the biggest day of strike action in the 75-year history of the NHS, as the ongoing row over pay and conditions continues to escalate.
The action, coordinated by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), will take place at 73 trusts in England, where up to 40,000 will strike.
More than 11,000 ambulance staff who are members of the GMB and Unite unions are also staging walkouts, hitting services across England, Wales and Northern
The nursing union is putting patients at risk by failing to protect lifesaving services on strike days, the UK’s chief nurses have warned.
Dame Ruth May, chief nursing officer for England, has written to the chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing to say many nursing leaders feel ‘let down’ by its actions.
The letter to Pat Cullen is co-signed by Dame Ruth’s counterparts in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and urges her to do more to protect patient
The Prime Minister has refused to boost nurses’ pay, despite up to 100,000 joining picket lines yesterday, Tory pressure and unions warning of even more chaos in the weeks ahead.
Rishi Sunak today insisted No10’s 4 per cent offer is both ‘appropriate and fair’. The Royal College of Nursing, which coordinated the NHS’ biggest ever strike yesterday, wants a 19 per cent hike.
Walk-outs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland saw tens of thousands of operations cancelled across the country.
Up to six in ten routine operations were cancelled at hospitals disrupted by the NHS’ biggest ever nurses’ strike, health leaders claimed today.
Next week’s walk-outs – which will see paramedics and 999 call handlers join thousands of nurses on picket lines demanding inflation-busting pay rises – will be even more devastating for the British public, experts fear.
Saffron Cordery, chief executive of NHS Providers, said the looming action will prove ‘very challenging’ for the crippled health service, which is
One million NHS nurses are set to walk out before Christmas in a decision has sparked a huge divide in Britain.
176 NHS organisations voted for strikes but even nurses themselves can’t decide if the devastating NHS-wide strikes should go ahead this winter.
Some medics employed by the health service have called the planned strikes, set to begin before Christmas and rumble on for up to six months, ‘irresponsible’ saying it will impact patient safety.
Tories have also called it
