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A stealth tax raid by Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt will force almost 5m healthcare workers to pay hundreds of pounds more in tax, analysis shows.The government's decision to freeze income tax and national insurance thresholds will cost health workers an additional 1.5billion per year, the figures reveal.

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.

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.

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.

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.

(BENGALURU, India) A searing heat wave in parts of southern Asia in April this year was made at least 30 times more likely by climate change, according to a rapid study by international scientists released Wednesday.Sizzling temperatures of up to 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) were recorded in monitoring stations in parts of India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Laos last month which was unusually high for the time of year.

Atlanta KFF Health News When Destiny heard screams, she raced to a hospital room where she saw a patient assaulting a care technician.As a charge nurse at Northeast Georgia Health System, she was trained to de-escalate violent situations.But that day in spring 2021, as Destiny intervened, for several minutes the patient punched, kicked, and bit her.

ATLANTA When Destiny heard screams, she raced to a hospital room where she saw a patient assaulting a care technician.As a charge nurse at Northeast Georgia Health System, she was trained to de-escalate violent situations.But that day in spring 2021, as Destiny intervened, for several minutes the patient punched, kicked, and bit her.

One person died and four were injured in a shooting at a medical office building in downtown Atlanta on May 3. The violence came one day after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a hospital safety act into law.Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via Getty Images ATLANTA When Destiny heard screams, she raced to a hospital room where she saw a patient assaulting a care technician.

Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld is a U.S. Navy combat veteran who will be inaugurated as the American Medical Association's (AMA) first out gay president on June 13 - and he says the organization "simply will not stand" for legislation targeting abortion and gender-affirming care.He has pledged to use "every avenue available" to oppose such laws.

With a nationwide nursing shortage leaving hospitals understaffed and a lack of government funding limiting resources, it is easy to understand why members of the health care profession are reporting these issues.Individuals within the industry are pushing for change, calling for an investment in the health care workers who play such a vital role in keeping New York healthy.

The chief executive of Bafta has said the organisation is watching the writers' strikes in the US closely, ahead of an awards ceremony honouring the best of British television.Jane Millichip, who took over the role from Amanda Berry, said she is unsure whether the strikes will have a knock-on effect on programmes in the future.

Health Secretary Steve Barclay has said he is cautiously optimistic that unions will accept the current pay offer for nurses, despite increasingly heated rhetoric between negotiators.On Tuesday, unions in the NHS Staff Council will consider the offer of a 5% pay increase for 2023/24 along with a one-off payment worth between 1,655 and 3,789 for the current financial year for nurses in England.

Employees at Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital walked out of their workplace Tuesday, demanding higher wages and better job security.About 100 workers staged the walkout, WBZ NewsRadio reported, as members of the 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East union fight for what they say is a more fair contract.

D octors will embark on a three-day bike ride around the Greater London boundary on Saturday to celebrate the imminent expansion of the ultra-low emission zone.They say Sadiq Khan's Ulez expansion, across all 33 boroughs from August 29, was a small step in the right direction towards cleaner air.They called on all healthcare workers in the capital to campaign for clean air.

The World Health Organization on Friday declared an end to the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic while emphasizing that the health threat is not over."Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met for the 15th time and recommended to me that I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern [PHEIC]," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a press briefing Friday.

Roughly a million people could die from COVID-19 in China by next year as a result of the country's rapid abandonment of pandemic restrictions, a new study suggests.Researchers worry that ill-prepared healthcare systems, low rates of vaccination among the elderly and ineffective vaccines will contribute to a massive and deadly COVID-19 surge that has already begun overwhelming hospitals in Beijing.

Scientists heaped scorn on Twitter owner Elon Musk after he suggested Sunday that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, deserved to be prosecuted - while belittling the inclusive use of pronouns, to boot."My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci," Musk blurted to his 21 million Twitter followers.

Scientists heaped scorn on Twitter owner Elon Musk after he suggested Sunday that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, deserved to be prosecuted - while belittling the inclusive use of pronouns, to boot."My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci," Musk blurted to his 21 million Twitter followers.

NHS trusts are paying as much as 5,200 a shift for agency doctors, figures uncovered by Labour have shown, with the party saying that low staffing levels resulted in a significant rise in the use of temporary workers last year.In what Labour called an indication of a desperate staffing crisis in the health service, freedom of information requests to every English NHS trust showed they paid 3bn to agencies for staff during 2021-22, 20% more than in the previous year.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on Tuesday published its conclusions drawn from the coronavirus pandemic.The EU health authority said it had identified four areas where lessons had been learned.These areas included investment in public health, preparation for the next health crisis, risk communication and community engagement and Collection and analysis of data and evidence.

With the COVID-19 state of emergency a thing of the past, California health officials on Friday unveiled plans to relax guidance on masking in high-risk settings and to end vaccination requirements for healthcare workers.Among the changes announced by the California Department of Public Health is the end of statewide mask requirements in healthcare and other indoor high-risk settings - including correctional facilities and emergency and homeless shelters - beginning April 3.
Effective the same day, California will no longer require COVID-19 vaccinations for healthcare workers, including those in adult and direct care settings, correctional facilities and detention centers.

The HSE chief has said the pressure on hospitals is expected to get worse over coming weeks, as he apologised to people enduring long waits in emergency departments across the country.tephen Mulvany said the pressure facing hospitals "is very much a patient safety concern", and asked people to bear with medics as they tackle high numbers of patients.

Christmas is coming, party season is upon us, and for the first time since 2019 the government grinches aren't telling us what to do.For two successive festive seasons during the pandemic, officials across the UK issued rules to limit Covid's spread.This year, there are none.Off you go, enjoy yourselves.

Anyone who experiences quarantine nostalgia - a topic that has over 84 billion views on TikTok - admits that it's strange to look back on such a stressful, traumatizing time in human history and kind of... miss it?March 2020 was one long scramble to buy toilet paper while you worried about family and friends.

As an A&E doctor, I start every consultation these days by apologising for the long wait.For some of my patients, it means a scramble to organise emergency childcare.Others miss the window to access the best treatments for strokes or heart attacks.The waiting room is a hotbed of emotion.My patients are understandably furious that they've been left in a windowless waiting room for hours with limited food and water, inadequate pain relief and little information about when they might be seen (aside from the hourly PA announcement that the current wait time is 15 hours and is expected to increase).

Burnout and stress among doctors, nurses, paramedics and other health staff has cost the NHS in England more than 15m lost working days since March 2020, about 50% more than the days lost to Covid infections and self-isolation, analysis of official figures by the Observer reveals.NHS sickness figures show that between March 2020, the month of the first Covid lockdown, and last September, 15.4m working days have been lost in the NHS because of stress-related absences, compared with 9.8m days lost from staff who were required to self-isolate or were ill with Covid.

There isn't much a Tory prime minister can say these days without sparking an internal debate.As Rishi Sunak has fast discovered, any discussion on planning, economic growth or even childcare has the potential to lead to a war of words between the various factions in the Conservative party on the correct approach.

Ambulance workers could coordinate strike action with other NHS workers to send a clear message to the government to invest in the health service, the UK's biggest trade union, Unison, has said.About 20,000 health workers in England, including non-medical NHS staff, will take part in the first wave of strikes before Christmas.

Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards have flooded the streets of Madrid for the largest protest yet against the regional government's management of the capital city's healthcare services.ore than 250,000 people rallied in the city centre, according to the central Spanish government.Organisers claimed the crowd was bigger by several hundred thousand.

France has dropped Covid testing restrictions imposed on travellers from China, the French embassy in Beijing said.Published: 17 February 2023 08:36 CET Passengers of a flight from China wait in line at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP Since January, visitors aged 11 and over travelling from China to France have had to present a negative test taken 48 hours before the flight to board the plane.

France's top court on Friday threw out a case against former health minister Agnes Buzyn over her allegedly "endangering the lives of others" by initially downplaying the gravity of Covid-19.Published: 20 January 2023 17:41 CET The former doctor, who served in cabinet from May 2017 until her resignation for a failed bid to become Paris mayor in February 2020, has always denied the charges.

Under proposals put forward by Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin and Employment Minister Olivier Dussopt, the special residence permit is intended to ease the worker shortage in a number of under-pressure areas of the economy, including construction, hospitality, and healthcare.It is part of a wide-ranging immigration bill that also includes compulsory language exams for certain groups and a tougher regime for people served with a notice to quit France.

Under proposals put forward by Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin and Employment Minister Olivier Dussopt, the special residence permit is intended to ease the worker shortage in a number of under-pressure areas of the economy, including construction, hospitality, and healthcare.It is part of a wide-ranging immigration bill that also includes compulsory language exams for certain groups and a tougher regime for people served with a notice to quit France.

The Five co-hosts bashed New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) about her refusal to rehire unvaccinated healthcare workers, even going so far as to call her an idiot and declare her worse than her predecessor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).Liberals are refusing to back off their vaccine mandates, even months after Biden said the pandemic is over, said Jeanine Pirro, and now Hochul was refusing to rehire these unvaccinated healthcare workers, even as the state suffers from severe staffing shortages.

The Taoiseach has defended the Government's handling of the long-running health crisis, saying it is "too simplistic" to call it a failure of successive Fine Gael and Fianna Fail governments.eo Varadkar said the Government cannot be blamed for the pandemic, the current wave of RSV and "one of the worst" flu seasons.

When Allison Holthoff entered a crowded Nova Scotia hospital at the end of December, the intense pain in her abdomen worsened with each hour she spent waiting for treatment.With the emergency room under renovations, overwhelmed staff triaged a stream of incoming patients in a makeshift treatment area.

Primary care doctors have called for walkouts in Andalusia, Catalonia, Aragon, Valencia, Extremadura, Madrid, Cantabria and Navarra.In November 2022, some unions across the country called for an indefinite strike due to poor working conditions, however, it was suspended during Christmas until Thursday, January 12th.

National Health Service nurses say inadequate pay and staffing shortages put themselves and patients in danger.Demonstrators, holding placards and banners, gather during a strike by NHS nursing staff outside St. Thomas' Hospital in London, United Kingdom, on December 15, 2022.Rasid Necati Aslim / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Tens of thousands of nurses across the United Kingdom are set to walk off the job Thursday in what's been described as the largest-ever strike by National Health Service workers, who said they were forced to act after the government refused to negotiate over pay amid painfully high inflation.

NHS leaders fear patients will come to harm as cancer services are hit hard by upcoming nurses' strikes.The NHS's four chief nurses wrote to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) general secretary Pat Cullen warning patients' lives are at risk due to life-saving services not being protected when nurses walk out on Thursday.

It's 1:50 p.m. on a recent weekday at the intensive care unit of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children as a trio of women try to solve the latest problem.There are three children who need to be in SickKids' ICU but are not.One is waiting in the emergency department and two others are at community hospitals.

The British Medical Association (BMA) has hit back at disappointing comments by Labour's shadow health secretary after he criticised the hostile trade union.Wes Streeting, in an interview with the Telegraph, targeted the BMA trade union, which represents doctors and medical students, as he urged his party colleagues to see the NHS as a service not a shrine.

Judges were asked this week to determine whether or not vaccine mandates introduced by the previous government during the pandemic  which applied to healthcare and school staff as well as over-50s  breached the fundamental rights set out by Italy's constitution.Italy became the first country in Europe to make it obligatory for healthcare workers to be vaccinated, ruling in 2021 that they must have the jab or be transferred to other roles or suspended without pay.

RSV and other respiratory viral illnesses are continuing to stress children's hospitals across California.Nationally, hospitalization rates related to RSV - or respiratory syncytial virus - are exceptionally high, according to Dr. Theodore Ruel, chief of UC San Francisco's pediatric infectious diseases and global health division.

Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown said giving birth can be a scary time and she would never do it without a midwife present.The Spice Girl, 47, was speaking on Tuesday at The Sun's Who Cares Wins Awards, hosted by Davina McCall, at The Roundhouse in London.The event to celebrate dedicated healthcare workers was attended by the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, boxer Anthony Joshua, musician and actor Martin Kemp and comedian Al Murray.

On Saturday, June 29, 2019, a group of over 200 queer and trans folks were gathered in New York City, celebrating the city's big World Pride weekend.They had all come to a party called NYC Inferno known for sexual activity.At around midnight, they were gathered in the front of the venue, rapt as an artist led them in an interactive performance.

Enrique Villalobos' father is just one example of how the system is deteriorating.It took nine months for my 85-year-old father to have his prostate operation and he ended up in the emergency department several times because he was at death's door, says Villalobos.Hundreds of thousands of protesters took the streets of the Spanish capital last Sunday to demand action to save its healthcare system.

Since the start of the pandemic, people with proven Covid infections have had to self-isolate at home for several days.That's now set to change as a handful of German states lift their mandatory isolation rules.Published: 11 November 2022 13:11 CET In a statement from the Baden-Wurttemberg health ministry in Stuttgart, the states of Baden-Wurttemberg, Bavaria, Hessen and Schleswig-Holstein announced that they would be ending compulsory isolation for people with Covid.

Fred Balongo, a teacher and farmer from the village of Madudu in the Mubende district of Uganda, had a close call with Ebola earlier this fall (2022).When his son's friend and neighbor tested positive for Ebola, Balongo and the rest of his family were instructed to quarantine for 21 days.While everyone in Balongo's immediate family turned out okay, their neighbors suffered a different fate.

Families of those who died in the Covid pandemic have started a petition to have former health secretary Matt Hancock removed from the roster of contestants for TV's I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice appealed to ITV to drop the MP from its line-up, accusing him of a shameless search for publicity ahead of the publication of his book about the pandemic, due for release in December.