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Health service ‘paying the price’ for austerity, warns King’s Fund think tank

Strikes by ambulance staff and some NHS workers have been called off after members of two unions voted to accept the Scottish Government’s most recent pay deal. After initially pausing planned action to take the “best and final” pay offer to members, 64% of Unite members who voted were in…

NHS Tayside warns residents to "take extra care" and stay at home if they can following a sharp rise in people attending A&E after falling on ice

Mad Friday, as it has become known, is one of the NHS’s busiest nights of the year

THE leader of the country’s largest health union has suggested that nurses based in England could move to Scotland to work because of better pay.

Liverpool ECHO latest headlines on Tuesday, December 13

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said the Government would not blink first in the stand-off with unions striking on the railways, the NHS and other sectors.

Data shows 30,000 operations were cancelled last year in England

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

In today’s newsletter: While it’s not unusual to see minus temperatures in Britain, what does the manner in which this cold snap has hit the UK say about our preparedness?

Ketamine is a licensed medical drug, widely used as an anaesthetic and in pain relief