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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has announced its biggest walkout of the pay dispute in England. Its members at half of hospitals, mental health and community services will take part in the 48-hour strike from 1 to 3 March.
More than 78,000 people have signed a petition to help write off a Sheffield asylum seeker’s £93,000 NHS debt for the care he needed to save his life.
32-year-old Simbarashe Mujakachi came to the UK with his family in 2004 from Zimbabwe. His father, Victor, was a student at the time and emigrated with Simba, his mother and two brothers.
Hundreds of students at Northumbria University are self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19.
A Zimbabwean woman who has been living in the UK since 2004 was diagnosed Covid-19 positive 13 days ago.
The UK is facing its fourth week in lockdown, with the government set to review by Thursday whether social distancing measures can be changed.
An NHS worker has died from coronavirus after treating patients with only gloves for protection, leaving his family feeling “let down”.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to fast-track his country’s National Health Services (NHS) visas to make it easier for overseas doctors and nurses to work in the UK — a move likely to throw Zimbabwe’s public health sector into unprecedented crisis in the wake of government’s protracted dispute with its doctors and nurses over remuneration and working conditions.
UNITED KINGDOM – Up to 30,000 overseas nurses face the axe under barmy Tory immigration laws that will spark an NHS staffing crisis.
UNITED KINGDOM – A daily pill can reduce the risk of getting HIV by almost 90 per cent, according to “game-changing” research that has prompted calls for the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK to make the drug available to gay men.
SCOTLAND – A Zimbabwean asylum seeker who used a forged residence permit to secure a job as a nurse in Glasgow has escaped a prison sentence after a judge ordered her to carry out 160 hours unpaid work within six months.