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H eathrow airport security staff are set to walkout in an ongoing dispute over pay on Thursday, which could lead to serious disruption for holidaymakers.Earlier this month, unions announced fresh strike action this summer, while a teachers' union has threatened further industrial action.The upcoming strikes are the latest in a long series of disputes over pay and working conditions across various industries.

Nurses have threatened strike action across the whole of the NHS in England after ministers imposed a new pay deal for the majority of NHS staff without an agreement with the nursing union.The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said that it is to ballot members on further strikes between June and December across the full NHS, previous strikes only occurred in around half of NHS trusts.

A rise in the number of companies offering Canadians faster access to health care at a price is prompting the federal government to launch a crackdown on the practice, CBC News has learned.Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos is telling the provinces to put a stop to patients being charged for medically necessary care and warns that Ottawa will claw back federal health transfer payments if the charges continue.

Ambulance workers in Unison are to stage two fresh strikes in the dispute over pay and staffing.Members of the union in five ambulance services in England will walk out on January 11 and 23.The strike will affect London, Yorkshire, the North West, North East and South West and follows action by members of three ambulance unions on Wednesday.

Weeks of strikes by workers in essential public services are set to cause mass disruption over the Christmas period and beyond.Postal workers, nurses, paramedics, rail workers, Border Force staff and others will walk out in December and January, often on concurrent days.Thousands of NHS operations and appointments have been cancelled, while holidaymakers to reconsider their Christmas holidays due to expected chaos at the UK's major travel hubs.

Health workers in Wales have voted to accept a pay offer from the Welsh Government.Members of the GMB union backed the offer by 65% on a turnout of 60%.Nathan Holman, the union's lead officer in Wales said: GMB members have voted to accept the offer, however, we recognise many of our members are not happy with the deal.

NHS doctors are being lured to Australia by adverts promising them a six-figure salary and 20 days off each month to travel, swim and surf in the sun.The advert has been placed in the BMJ, the prominent journal published by the British Medical Association union, during a week in which the NHS has been rocked by further nurses' strikes.

More than one million NHS workers including nurses and ambulance staff will be given a 5% pay rise after ministers and unions agreed a deal following months of strikes.Members of the NHS staff council moved to accept the offer, which includes a one-off payment for some groups for last year.Health secretary Steve Barclay called it a good day for NHS staff and patients and said he will implement the deal for all staff, even those who have not accepted the offer.

Nurses in England are striking in their latest walkout over an ongoing pay dispute with the government.The health workers are striking from 8pm (or the start of the night shift) on 30 April to 11.59pm on 1 May.In an interview with the Independent over the weekend, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) general secretary Pat Cullen warned the government could face years of strikes by nurses if it did not find a way through the strikes.

A crucial meeting will be held on Tuesday between unions and NHS employers which is expected to pave the way for the Government to implement a pay rise aimed at resolving the long-running health workers dispute.The NHS Staff Council will hear reports from unions which have balloted hundreds of thousands of health workers in recent weeks.

Thousands of health workers are taking part in strike action across Northern Ireland.Paramedics are among the workers taking part at picket lines across the region on Thursday.Workers with the unions Nipsa, Unison and Unite are staging the action.The 24-hour stoppage will be the latest full day of action taken by health sector unions as they press for safe staffing, better pay and improved mileage allowances.

Striking health workers have urged the government to treat them with respect as they call for an improved pay deal and safe staffing levels.Thousands of health and social care workers took to picket lines across Northern Ireland on Thursday in the latest bout of industrial action.Paramedics, some nurses and hospital support workers who belong to the unions Nipsa, Unison and Unite took part.

The law, signed last week, imposes punishments of up to six months in jail for defiant workers or union leaders in Zimbabwe.Zimbabwe has brought in a law banning health workers such as nurses and doctors from prolonged strikes, imposing punishments of up to six months in jail for defiant workers or union leaders, state-run media and a government spokesman said.

Trade unions and ministers are on course for a fresh clash after Grant Shapps set out new laws requiring minimum levels of service from ambulance staff, firefighters and railway workers during industrial action.The proposals were condemned as unworkable and illegal by unions, who warned the legislation would poison industrial relations and lead to more walkouts.

Business secretary Grant Shapps was accused of an outrageous attack on unions representing NHS ambulance staff after he claimed that their approach to strikes were putting lives at risk.The cabinet minister clashed with trade unions once again as he set out new laws requiring minimum levels of service from NHS staff, firefighters and railway workers during any industrial action.

NHS organisations across the country are braced for significant disruption as nurses prepare to stage a 28-hour strike over pay.The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will hold industrial action from 8pm on Sunday until 11.59pm on Monday night after voting to reject the latest Government offer.The union initially said it would not agree to derogations broad areas of care where staffing is guaranteed despite industrial action but granted some exemptions last week in an apparent U-turn.

A health boss has said NHS leaders have never been so worried over staff morale as nurses are set to go on strike again.Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, a membership body for organisations that commission and provide services across the NHS, added that workforce concerns go beyond industrial action with serious issues around recruitment.

A major hospital has declared an incident over fears for patient safety ahead of a strike by nurses this weekend as a key union voted to accept the government's latest pay offer.Great Ormond Steet Hospital for Children (GOSH) said the move, which could see some patients transferred to other hospitals or sent home, was aimed at ensuring essential care during the latest walkout.

NHS workers in Unite have rejected the Government's offer aimed at resolving the long running pay dispute, the union has announced.Members voted by 52% against the offer of a 5% wage rise this year and a cash payment for last year.The turnout was 55%.Unite said the result showed very high figures of rejection for grades mostly in frontline services with patients.

Members of the GMB have accepted the Government's pay offer to health workers, the union announced.Tens of thousands of the union's health workers were balloted on the offer of a 5% pay rise this year and a cash payment for last year.A total of 56% voted to accept and 44% to reject on a turnout of 51%.

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More than twice as many voters now trust Labour to improve public services as the Conservatives, after the government finally backed down and agreed an improved pay deal for NHS workers aimed at ending months of damaging health sector strikes.The latest Opinium poll for the Observer shows just 17% of people back the Tories on public services against 43% who would prefer Labour to manage them, after the government came forward with an enhanced offer last week.

The government and education unions have agreed to intensive talks on teacher pay, conditions and workload reduction, which have sparked a series of strikes by teachers in recent months, it has been announced.The talks will involve unions including the National Education Union (NEU), whose members were on strike in England earlier this week.

The two days of nursing strikes will be the largest of their kind in the world if Rishi Sunak does not negotiate on pay, a union leader has warned.Royal College of Nursing (RCN) general secretary Pat Cullen has told the Prime Minister he could get the action in England called off if he takes up her offer to meet halfway.

Ambulance workers have insisted the last place they want to be is on the picket line, as thousands went on strike for another day in the face of disheartening and demoralising conditions in the NHS.Many involved in the walkout described regular hours-long waits to hand over patients from ambulances to the care of doctors and nurses, while some hospital corridors are said to have become almost like wards.

The Prime Minister will host an NHS Recovery Forum, with experts from the health and care sectors convening in Downing Street on Saturday to discuss how to improve NHS performance and outcomes.The forum is set to focus on four crucial issues: social care and delayed discharge; urgent and emergency care; elective care; and primary care.

A man turned up to an accident and emergency department in the Midlands complaining about ear wax on the day a hospital declared a critical incident, a nurse who works there has said.Lesley Meaney, a sister at University Hospitals of North Midlands (UNHM), said the patient presented to A&E with no pain, no discomfort, just eat war wax!

Ontario and all Atlantic provinces have reached agreements-in-principle on the health-care funding offer made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government at the first ministers' meeting in Ottawa earlier this month.At a town hall at Dalhousie University in Halifax on Thursday afternoon, Trudeau confirmed that Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick have reached agreements-in-principle with Ottawa.

The UK and EU have been urged to reach a speedy resolution to talks around the Northern Ireland Protocol.There has been speculation that the two sides are close to agreement.The DUP is refusing to re-enter devolved government at Stormont until unionist concerns over the protocol are addressed.This has resulted in a year of political paralysis in Northern Ireland.

Thousands of ambulance workers are staging more strikes as the Chancellor was urged to find the money to pay health workers fairly in order to end the walkouts.Up to 15,000 Unison ambulance workers are striking on Monday for the third time in five weeks, and will be joined by 5,000 of their NHS colleagues at two hospital trusts in Liverpool.

Ambulance workers will stage a fresh strike on Monday in the escalating dispute over pay and staffing.It comes after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was told he can halt industrial action and begin solving the staffing emergency if he comes up with new money to pay health workers fairly.But Unison warned Mr Hunt that if he continues to resist appeals to release extra cash and kickstart talks with unions to end the strikes, the NHS dispute could run for many months Thousands of members of Unison, Unite and the GMB will walk out across England and Wales on Monday.

Striking nurses have accused the health secretary of speaking nonsense after he warned patients would suffer if they were given a pay rise.Health workers on a protest march to Downing Street argued that if the government has billions of pounds to waste on the Track and Trace app and useless PPE - they can help hard-working NHS staff.

Tens of thousands of health care workers took to the streets of Madrid to protest staffing shortages as well as an overall lack of support for the public health care system in the region.Tens of thousands of health workers took to the streets of Madrid on Sunday to lodge their protests against what they consider an erosion of public health infrastructure.

WASHINGTON Even as 7,000 nurses return to work at two of New York's busiest hospitals after a three-day strike, colleagues around the country say it's just a matter of time before frontline workers at other hospitals begin walking the picket line.Problems are mounting at hospitals across the nation as they try to deal with widespread staffing shortages, overworked nurses beaten down by the pandemic and a busted pipeline of new nurses.

FILE - Health workers led by nurses take part in a demonstration over poor salaries at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare on June, 21, 2022.Zimbabwe has decreed a law that bans health workers such as nurses and doctors from prolonged strikes, while imposing punishments of up to 6 months jail time for defiant workers and union leaders.

Rishi Sunak's government is said to be considering a one-off payment for nurses and ambulance workers to end strikes causing major disruption in the NHS.The prime minister sparked a chink of optimism about a possible pay boost for health workers after he signalled a willingness to address higher pay demands for the first time.

The country discharged its last known Ebola patient from hospital in December 2022 and has passed WHO's 42-day timeline.Uganda has declared the end of a nearly four-month Ebola outbreak it struggled briefly to contain but was then able to swiftly bring under control despite the absence of a proven vaccine against the viral strain in question.

China has officially opened borders to inbound travelers for the first time in nearly three years.JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: After nearly three years virtually cut off from the rest of the world, China opened its borders this week.That means inbound travelers no longer need to wait out a government-arranged quarantine.

Mayor Adams' office is joining forces with the American College of Lifestyle Medicine to provide free training on better eating and healthier lifestyles to every health care practitioner in the city.The $44 million partnership will fund up to 200,000 doctors, nurses and other health workers on how to use "lifestyle medicine" in their practices.

The Ugandan government has declared an end to its Ebola outbreak, less than four months after cases were first reported.Since 20 September, 56 people have died from the virus, which is spread through body fluids, and there have been 142 confirmed infections.The country has reported no new infections in more than 42 days twice the maximum incubation period of the virus, a World Health Organization benchmark for a country to be declared Ebola-free.

Zimbabwe's health workers have criticised the government for passing contested legislation that outlaws any industrial action, saying it will worsen the sector's already damaging brain drain.The new Health Services Bill, which came into force on Tuesday, forbids health workers who are classified as an essential service from striking for more than three days.

The King's first Christmas broadcast, delivered with him standing in the quire of St George's Chapel as his late mother did in 1999, leads many of the Boxing Day front pages.During his address, Charles offered his sympathy to families struggling with the cost-of-living crisis, according to The Daily Telegraph.

Commuters in Beijing and Shanghai are crowding roads and public transport as cities move past tough zero-COVID' policy.Mask-wearing Beijing and Shanghai commuters are crowding subway trains, with China's two biggest cities moving closer to living with COVID-19, as millions have been infected with the virus across the country.

M ore than one million Londoners are now on an NHS waiting list for treatment, the Standard can reveal, amid fears the health service is bursting at the seams as winter begins.A total of 1,009,995 people were awaiting routine treatment in the capital at the end of October, according to the latest NHS figures.

I ll Londoners without a life-threatening condition are urged to make their own way to hospital when ambulance workers strike on Wednesday.Members of union Unison at London Ambulance Service (LAS) are to join others across England and Wales as they walk out for 12 hours between midday and midnight on Wednesday in a dispute over pay, it has been confirmed.

Ambulance workers in Unison will stage two further strikes in January in the dispute over pay and staffing, the union announced.Members of the union in five ambulance services in England will walk out on 11 and 23 January.The strike will affect London, Yorkshire, the North West, North East and South West and follows action by members of three ambulance unions on Wednesday.

Why so many medical practitioners are no longer making patient care their priority
One of the common cultural tropes we've all been seeing since the pandemic is "The Great Resignation" - people quitting their jobs en masse to 'find themselves' - or at least to find purposeful work that suits them better than whatever they were doing before.

There is a strong possibility of further nurses' strikes in January, a union leader has warned as the winter of industrial discontent continues.Walkouts are currently planned for Thursday 15 and Tuesday 20 December, and the NHS is training military personnel to help keep services running during what will be the largest action of its kind in health service history.

Weeks of strikes by workers in essential public services are set to cause mass disruption over the Christmas period and beyond.Postal workers, nurses, paramedics, rail workers, Border Force staff and others will walk out in December and January, often on concurrent days.Thousands of NHS operations and appointments have been cancelled, while holidaymakers to reconsider their Christmas holidays due to expected chaos at the UK's major travel hubs.

Downing Street has warned the country to brace itself for significant disruption from strikes later this week, as ministers signalled they are not willing to compromise with unions on pay.Ministers will today meet senior representatives of the armed forces and NHS at the emergency Cobra committee to discuss mitigation measures to ease the impact of industrial action by health workers and Border Force staff.

ABUJA, Nigeria - Building on the experience of battling the COVID-19 pandemic, African countries are strengthening health systems to prepare for the next health crisis, the World Health Organization's Africa director said Thursday.Are you on Telegram?Subscribe to our channel for the latest updates on Russia's war in Ukraine.

Health workers in Northern Ireland are to finally receive a pay rise recommended by independent salary review bodies, Stormont's Department of Health has announced.The delayed move comes after civil servants secured the legislative authority to make decisions on pay amid Stormont's political impasse.

Thousands of ambulance workers and other NHS staff are to strike on December 21 in a dispute over pay, unions have announced.The GMB, Unison and Unite unions are co-ordinating industrial action across England and Wales after accusing the government of ignoring pleas for a decent wage rise.Unison said its strike, involving paramedics, emergency care assistants, ambulance technicians and other 999 crew members, will run from noon to midnight.

Thousands of ambulance workers and other NHS staff will strike on December 21 in a row over pay, unions have announced.The GMB, Unison and Unite are co-ordinating industrial action across England and Wales after accusing the Government of ignoring pleas for a decent wage rise.The strike will happen a day after members of the Royal College of Nursing stage their second walkout, also over pay.

Britain may be the hobbling man of Europe, according to figures showing that the fall in hip and knee surgeries as a result of the Covid pandemic was greater in the UK than in any EU country.The number of hip replacement operations fell 46% in 2020 in the UK, compared with just 7% in Germany and 12% in France.

Emergency doctors in Germany say the pediatric intensive care system is close to collapse.With COVID-19 restrictions largely eased, rates of a common but potentially fatal childhood disease have soared.German doctors are warning that a surge in pediatric infections and a shortage of staff mean the country is critically short of intensive care beds for children.

20 minutes ago20 minutes ago Emergency doctors in Germany say the pediatric intensive care system is close to collapse.With COVID-19 restrictions largely eased, rates of a common but potentially fatal childhood disease have soared.German doctors are warning that a surge in pediatric infections and a shortage of staff mean the country is critically short of intensive care beds for children.

As inflation has climbed steadily throughout year, workers have seen rising prices eroding their earnings  just as employers have been trying to make savings or modernise working practices to cope with increasing costs.The result?Clashes over pay, redundancies, pensions and terms and conditions.A new winter of discontent had begun even before Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement on 17 November, which left householders everywhere feeling even worse off.

Doses will be used first for health workers and people living in hardest-hit areas, especially in DRC, Ghana and Nigeria.The African continent is set to receive its first batch of mpox vaccines, 50,000 doses in all, as a donation from South Korea, according to the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

NAIROBI, Kenya - Africa's top public health body says the continent is set to receive its first batch of mpox vaccines as a donation from South Korea.The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday the 50,000 doses will be used first for health workers and people living in the hardest-hit areas.