Almost 350,000 nursing staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be asked to vote from Monday on a 3.6% pay increase. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has already dismissed the award as “grotesque” and says the vote will be crucial in determining the next steps which could include a ballot for strike action....
Five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic caught our health care system unawares, nurses and other health care workers say we are no more prepared for the next threat. “It’s scary,” says Tatiana Mukhtar, a nurse in New Orleans. The exposure during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic “was horrific, for patients...
A man from Devon said he owes his life to doctors and nurses after they removed a suddenly discovered brain tumour. Jake Bristow was 32-years-old, working in a family air conditioning business in Exeter, when he was diagnosed with the life-threatening growth. He then went for surgery at Derriford Hospital, where he was treated by...
This is the moment two nurses in China rushed to protect newborn babies when a powerful earthquake struck neighbouring Myanmar on Friday. CCTV from a maternity unit in Ruili, a Chinese city near the border, shows one woman kneeling down to protect an infant, as another nurse holds on to other babies in their cots....
