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Call for Scotland to end zero-hours contracts in social care sector

TWO former health ministers have called on Humza Yousaf to ban zero-hours contracts in the social care sector.

The National (Scotland) · Dec 11, 2022

Talkspace offers therapy & psychiatry from the comfort of your home

80% off of people in a study found Talkspace online therapy as effective as in-person sessions

Mic · Dec 11, 2022

'Horror led me to act... shame we're still fighting for closure' - Tuam campaigner Catherine Corless on battle for justice

'Five years on, and the babies still await a Christian burial'

Irish Mirror · Dec 11, 2022

Inside the 'tridemic': North Philly children struggling to breathe are waiting hours to be seen at the ER

PHILADELPHIA — Raspy cries and barky coughs echoed across the emergency room at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children on a recent chilly morning in North Philadelphia. Kids had just started to stream into the waiting room, yet every available bed was already filled.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Dec 11, 2022

Ministers accused of ‘dangerous’ stance after they refuse to negotiate pay with nurses to prevent strikes

Nursing leaders have offered to suspend Thursday’s industrial action in return for talks

The Independent UK · Dec 11, 2022

Queensland's 'unsophisticated' hotel quarantine system left man without proper medical care, coroner finds

Questions are being raised about the death of a man who was in hotel quarantine before he died by suicide, after a coroner found the "unsophisticated" quarantine system left him without proper medical care.

ABC News · Dec 11, 2022

NHS chief warns nurse strike could make waiting times longer

Up to 100,000 Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members will strike on Thursday for the first time in the union’s 126-year history

Evening Standard · Dec 11, 2022

Bill aims to stop care homes in UK preventing visits due to Covid

Private members bill paves way for law to end a minority of providers limiting access to relatives, two and a half years after first lockdown

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2022

The Observer view on why public sector workers deserve a fair pay deal and have no choice but to strike

The government has failed to raise real-term wages for years and is now refusing to negotiate

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2022

'Construction industry’s suicide statistics must be made available'

‘THERE’S something going on in construction, and we don’t know where we are in Scotland. To me, that’s just ignoring it.”

The National (Scotland) · Dec 11, 2022