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Trains, Royal Mail and nurses: Every strike planned in run up to Christmas

From ambulances to buses and postal deliveries, few public services will be unaffected by industrial action in Britain’s new ‘winter of discontent’

The Independent UK

Ambulance workers ‘could withdraw critical care over pay frustration’, union boss warns

Union boss says Government must open discussions or risk individual workers withdrawing critical care

Evening Standard

Health Secretary rejects nurses offer for meeting to avert strike

Health Secretary Steve Barclay on Monday appeared to snub an offer by nurses unions to prevent Christmas strikes by entering pay negotiations.

Evening Standard

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Flowers for Wishaw woman whose dedication to family is plain to see

Jean Ledwith was nominated by her daughter Amanda who almost lost her sight

Daily Record

Glasgow daycare worker asked colleagues to lie about child's bruise

Rochelle Lundie has been reprimanded after allowing the child to go home a bruise on their cheek without telling the parents, she also failed to report the incident to her line manager.

Glasgow Live

More states to consider extending postpartum Medicaid coverage beyond two months

Lawmakers in several conservative-led states — including Montana, Wyoming, Missouri, and Mississippi — are expected to consider proposals to provide a year of continuous health coverage to new mothers enrolled in Medicaid.

Tribune News Service

Health secretary accuses nurses of ‘taking money from operations’ with pay demands

‘We’d have to take money away from patients waiting for operations to fund additional pay’ Steve Barclay claims

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Drivers aged 25-44 ‘twice as likely to exceed alcohol limit on the morning after’

Motorists are being urged not to risk getting behind the wheel the morning after a Christmas party

Evening Standard

Factcheck: are UK strikers greedy, unrealistic and putting others in danger?

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The Guardian - UK

Glasgow hospital patients to be 'Home for Lunch' in new discharge initiative

Families are being asked to make sure appropriate arrangements are in place to get their loved ones out of the hospital before 12pm as the health board launches a new 'Home for Lunch' campaign.

Glasgow Live

First woman to get Covid-19 vaccine in Ireland dies as tributes are paid

She is survived by her three children – John, Alan, and Paula

Irish Mirror

Britain braces for winter of strike action as nurses walk out

British nurses will go on strike this week, hitting already stretched hospitals and cranking up pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to quell the biggest wave of industrial action to hit the country in decades.

Reuters

December in Britain: A month of strikes

Britain faces disruption from widespread industrial action this month as many workers struggling with a cost of living crisis seek pay rises that better reflect double-digit levels of inflation.

Reuters

Young people help to restore arch and local pride in east London borough

Sole remnant of 19th-century hospital building in Stratford renovated as part of grassroots heritage programme

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'No exceptions' to criminal age change

In the wake of advice being released on changing the age of criminal responsibility, advocates say it is time for reform across every state and territory.

ABC News

Federal government slashes psychologist visits for Australians seeking mental health treatment

Subsidised visits to psychologists, GPs and allied mental health services will be halved within weeks, with the federal government abandoning a program added at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

AAP

St Basil's bosses ordered to give evidence

St Basil's Home for the Aged bosses have lost their challenge against giving evidence about the deaths of 50 residents during a COVID-19 outbreak.

Wales Online

Drivers aged 25-44 twice as likely to have driven drunk the morning after consuming alcohol

Motorists are being urged not to risk getting behind the wheel the morning after a Christmas party

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St Basil's managers lose fight against giving evidence at inquest into COVID aged-care deaths

The managers of a Greek nursing home at the centre of Australia's worst COVID-19 outbreak will be forced to give evidence at a coronial inquest after losing an appeal in Victoria's highest court.

The Independent UK

Drivers aged 25-44 ‘twice as likely to exceed drink limit on morning after’

Motorists are being urged not to risk getting behind the wheel the morning after a Christmas party.

Newcastle Herald

Broom swung at father after he refused to give son positive COVID test to dodge work

The court heard the young man wanted to use his dad's positive COVID test so he didn't have to go to work.

360info

'Women do not have to go through hell just to birth their babies'

In much of the world, myths regarding childbirth mean women experience more pain than they could. Education is key.

360info

Listening to women in labour

Too often, the medical profession ignores self-reported health from women in labour. Doing so risks both mother and baby.

360info

How acupuncture works

Acupuncture is becoming more widely accepted as a pain treatment but what is the science behind it?

The Independent UK

Public braced for walkouts as ministers accused of ‘dangerous’ attitude to strikes

Government rejects pay talks with nurses despite warning patients face ‘significant’ risks

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