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• Laissez-faire Covid policy’s cost to health and wealth | Letters

  27-03-2022 19:27
  
  Ruth Wilkinson on the support needed to help those with long Covid get back to work, Tim Walker on the damage done to hospitality and theatre and businesses, and Doris Bridgeman on the end of free lateral flow testsWe went out to clap for our NHS heroes and praised the fortitude of care home workers. We smiled at those who served us through the pandemic at supermarket tills. Most were relieved when their children returned to school. We even waved as our wheelie bins were emptied.Some of these ke
  
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• Overseas nurses in the UK forced to pay out thousands if they want to quit jobs

  27-03-2022 06:00
  
  Observer investigation uncovers NHS trusts and private care homes charging staff who leave to recoup recruitment costs• Trapped and destitute: how foreign nurses’ UK dreams turned sourInternational nurses working for NHS trusts and private care homes are being trapped in their jobs by clauses in their contracts that require them to pay thousands of pounds if they try to leave.In extreme cases, nurses are tied to their roles for up to five years and face fees as steep as £14,000
  
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