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The ongoing wave of public sector strikes, some of which could continue into the autumn, has been motivated by two main factors.One the most immediate is the spike in inflation and the cost of living crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine.For workforces which had already endured a steady erosion of pay and living standards for over a decade, this amounted to a blow upon the bruise inflicted by austerity.

Mental health patients in Wales are being left behind, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has claimed as it called for more money to be invested in the sector.The union said a lack of financial investment in inpatient services combined with ongoing stigma around severe mental ill health has contributed to inequalities within mental health provision.

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.

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.

Union leader Pat Cullen has urged Health Secretary Steve Barclay not to be disrespectful to nurses amid their biggest strike yet over the bank holiday.The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) general secretary's comment came after Mr Barclay described their ongoing industrial action as premature and disrespectful to the other trade unions who are meeting to discuss the Government's pay offer on Tuesday.

From 24m ago Cullen is urging the health secretary Steve Barclay not to be disrespectful to striking nurses and to get round the table immediately to resolve their pay dispute.Asked on Sky News about Barclay's description of the ongoing RCN strike as premature and disrespectful to the other unions, Cullen has said: There's certainly no disrespect being shown from our nursing staff, I can say that categorically.

Medicinal cannabis helps relieve cancer pain and can cut down how many drugs people need, research suggests.A new study found that products with an equal balance of the active ingredients tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) seemed to be the most effective for pain.At the moment, only specialist hospital doctors can prescribe cannabis-based medicines on the NHS, and only for a few limited conditions such as rare and severe epilepsy, vomiting or nausea caused by chemotherapy and muscle stiffness caused by multiple sclerosis (MS).

Women's lives are being put at risk by substandard mental health care during their pregnancy and in the first year after childbirth in most parts of the UK, a report has found.About one in every five women develops a mental illness at some point during the perinatal period, the stage from pregnancy up to a year after giving birth.

Nurses in England are striking in their latest walkout over an ongoing pay dispute with the government.Services across England were braced for exceptionally low staffing as part of the biggest walkout yet over the bank holiday.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.

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.

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 Unite have rejected the government's pay offer to health workers in England, 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.

Murder-accused nurse Lucy Letby said it was sickening when she discovered she was being blamed for a number of baby deaths while doing the job she loved.Seven months on from the start of her trial at Manchester Crown Court, Letby, 33, entered the witness box on Tuesday to give evidence.She is alleged to have murdered five boys and two girls, and attempted to murder another five boys and five girls, between June 2015 and June 2016.

A nurse accused of multiple murders and attempted murders of babies broke down in court as she told a jury she had not harmed any children.Seven months on from the start of her trial at Manchester Crown Court, Lucy Letby, 33, entered the witness box on Tuesday to give evidence.She is alleged to have murdered five boys and two girls, and attempted to murder another five boys and five girls, between June 2015 and June 2016.

The world-renowned children's hospital had expressed serious concerns about staffing as Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members prepare to walk out over a long-running pay dispute with the Government.The RCN, which is holding a strike from 8pm on Sunday until 11.59pm on Monday evening, previously said it will not agree to derogations broad areas of care where unions agree to provide staffing during industrial action.

NHS services across England will face major disruption on Monday after nurses walked out in a 28-hour strike over pay.The strike, which will end just before midnight, comes after a High Court judge ruled it would be unlawful for the industrial action to continue into Tuesday as originally planned.Monday will also see NHS workers march in central London.

The Royal College of Nursing has clashed with the government over whether sufficient exemptions have been made to protect patient safety during the nurses' strike in England that is due to start on Sunday night.The general secretary of the RCN, Pat Cullen, said nurses had worked tirelessly to make sure their strike would be as safe as possible for patients and that there were national exemptions in place for those really acute urgent services.

Nurses have worked tirelessly with NHS England to make sure their strike is safe for patients, the general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said.The RCN will hold industrial action from 8pm on Sunday until 11.59pm on Monday 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 on Friday in an apparent U-turn.

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.

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%.

A leading health union has accepted the government's improved pay offer for NHS staff, in a move that could split unions over whether to keep on striking for more money.GMB members working in the NHS in England have voted by 56% to 44% to accept the deal that all 12 health unions hammered out last month with the health secretary, Steve Barclay.

With David Beckham having told of his experiences of living with obsessive compulsive disorder for a new Netflix series, we take a look at the condition, and how common it is.OCD is not simply about liking things to be neat the condition can have a serious impact on individuals and their quality of life.

A strike by tens of thousands of nurses starting this Sunday will be cut short after a high court judge ruled that the plans were partly unlawful.The interim declaration prompted Pat Cullen, the general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), to condemn the government for taking its own nurses to court, describing it as the darkest day in the long-running pay dispute.

Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature James Cleverly, the foreign secretary, has been giving interviews about Sudan this morning.(See 9.48am.)But he was also asked about last night's Guardian story saying officials from the Department of Health have raised concerns about Steve Barclay's alleged conduct towards civil servants.

In many West African cultures, griots serve as communal memory banks, transmitting a people's history, rituals, folklore and values from generation to generation, stretching back centuries.But for Anglo-Gambian kora master Sona Jobarteh, becoming the first women from a griot family to master the 21-string instrument was a decidedly secluded process.

Mental health services do not take full account of the impact of the menopause, which can have serious consequences for women, patient safety investigators have found.Women are frequently prescribed antidepressants when hormone replacement therapy (HRT) would more appropriate, they said.A new report into the suicide of 56-year-old NHS manager Frances Wellburn found staff working in community mental health teams are not trained in this area, and menopause is not routinely considered as a contributing factor among women with low mood who need help.

Young people with eating disorders are coming to harm and ending up in A&E because they are being denied care and forced to endure long waits for treatment, GPs have revealed.NHS eating disorders services are so overwhelmed by a post-Covid surge in problems such as anorexia that they are telling under-19s to rely on charities, their parents or self-help instead.

The strike is also set to affect emergency departments across south London including at St George's Hospital in Tooting and King's College Hospital in Denmark Hill.In north London, University College Hospital in Euston will be impacted, and nurses at St Mary's in Paddington and at Charing Cross are joining the strike too.

GPs in the UK are under extreme strain and have the highest stress levels compared with doctors in nine other high income countries, a report has found.The study, by the Health Foundation charity, found UK GPs also had the lowest job satisfaction compared with those working in France, Germany, the US, Canada, Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand.

GPs in the UK are under extreme strain and have the highest stress levels compared with doctors in nine other high income countries, a report has found.The study, by the Health Foundation charity, found UK GPs also had the lowest job satisfaction compared with those working in France, Germany, the US, Canada, Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand.