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• Health (UK)

  NHS (Britain): As a paramedic, I can tell you why people are dying in the backs of ambulances, Mr Javid

  15 November 2021, by Anonymous

  The health secretary promised pressures would not become ‘unsustainable’. But overworked staff can no longer provide a safe service
  Dear Sajid Javid, I am a paramedic working on the frontline for an NHS ambulance service in England. I have worked as a paramedic on the frontline throughout the (...)

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  Britain: Care workers clap back

  9 September 2021, by CONWAY Terry

  Terry Conway reports on the nationwide CaSWO! day of action on September 4.
  Videos are note reproduced here.
  September 4 saw a successful day of action organised by Care and Support Workers Organise (CaSWO!) with actions in Newcastle, Preston, London and Manchester. The events were timely as (...)

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  Care workers in England leaving for Amazon and other better-paid jobs

  4 September 2021, by BOOTH Robert

  Retailer is luring staff with 30% higher wages, while some workers object to the care sector’s ‘no jab, no job’ policy.
  Care workers are quitting to become Amazon warehouse pickers and for other better-paid jobs in a growing staffing crisis which operators now warn could leave 170,000 vacancies (...)

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  Britain: Threat of nurses’ strike over 3% pay award for NHS staff

  21 July 2021, by ALLEGRETTI Aubrey , CAMPBELL Denis

  Rise is three times higher than initial 1% offer but nurses likely to reject award and may take industrial action in protest.
  Ministers have offered more than 1 million NHS staff in England a 3% pay rise, three times higher than its initial 1% offer which sparked fury among frontline workers. (...)

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  Health (UK): Thirty-year failure to tackle preventable disease fuelling global Covid pandemic

  15 October 2020, by BOSELEY Sarah

  Study reveals increase in high blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar and obesity, all risk factors for disease.
  The failure of governments to tackle a three-decade rise in preventable diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes has fuelled the Covid-19 pandemic and is stalling life (...)

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  Britain: Five reasons why this National Health Service (NHS) winter may be different

  2 December 2019, by ANANDACIVA Siva

  Last month saw the publication of the most recent NHS winter performance data the last set of performance data that will be published before the general election. What does this data suggest about the prospects for the NHS and its patients as we head into winter?
  Winter is always a difficult (...)

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  Britain (health): Austerity to blame for 130,000 ‘preventable’ UK deaths – report

  1 June 2019, by HELM Toby

  Two decades of public health improvements have stalled, says IPPR thinktank.
  More than 130,000 deaths in the UK since 2012 could have been prevented if improvements in public health policy had not stalled as a direct result of austerity cuts, according to a hard-hitting analysis to be (...)