The audience for this Thursday’s Question Time erupted in laughter following host Fiona Bruce’s retort to a panellist’s words. Health minister Will Quince told the BBC audience he “regularly” meets with unions, to which Ms Bruce responded: “What, to talk about pay?”
Ambulance workers have announced plans to strike on six additional dates after rejecting another pay offer from the Government. Over 10,000 staff, including paramedics, call handlers, and care assistants, will walk out on February 6, February 20, March 6 and March 20.
NHS Chief Amanda Pritchard has called for an increase in the training of homegrown doctors and nurses in the UK as she warned that hospitals are “over-reliant” on foreign staff, a news report has claimed. Ms Pritchard said she wanted to stop
BBC Question Time audience members expressed their anger and disappointment over the NHS crisis as they shared their ordeal with a Conservative MP on the show yesterday. Several NHS staff members slammed Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Government for not accepting the crisis that
Rishi Sunak has attacked Labour’s plans for healthcare in the UK in a fiery Prime Minister’s Questions exchange with Sir Keir Starmer. The Labour leader criticised the Tories over NHS waiting times, claiming that the Tory Government could not blame Covid for
NHS strikes are facing a major escalation, as health unions have announced a mass boycott of the NHS pay review body. The boycott will take place while the current wage disputes from 2022/23 remain unresolved, with 14 unions demanding direct pay talks
With Wednesday’s ambulance strike poised to cripple services across Britain, a paramedic has offered a sobering insight into the pressure he and his colleagues are under. And the London Ambulance Service employee, who has almost 30 years’ experience at the sharp end,
The NHS has plans to transfer 3,000 hospital patients to care homes within a week to reduce massive bed backlogs sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic, decades of government cuts, a heavy flu season and staff and bed shortages. Thousands more will be
While the NHS erupts into a crisis of emergency care in one of the toughest winters it has ever faced, the pattern appears similar across Europe as sick patients flood into packed-out wards. A “twindemic” of Covid and flu is ripping through
Nicola Sturgeon has come under furious attack after the Scottish Tory leader raged it is “completely bonkers” the Government’s first debate after the Christmas break will be about Scottish independence and not the NHS “crisis”. Douglas Ross has lashed out at Ms