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• Press release: Health and Social Care Secretary meets with Nottingham maternity review families

  04-05-2022 19:26 via gov.uk
  
  The Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid today met with some of the families involved in the review of maternity care at Nottingham University Hospitals to listen to and understand their concerns
  
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• ‘Poverty-level wages’: California workers fight to reform nursing homes

  04-05-2022 11:00
  
  Union pushing for proposal to create board to oversee industry in wake of pandemic that has decimated staffingJesus Figueroa Cacho, a certified nursing assistant of the Sacramento, California area, has worked in the nursing home industry for about 25 years.She consistently works 16 hour long shifts, 60 to 80 hours per week, often working through breaks and not getting paid overtime because her employer she works night shifts and overtime accrual resets at 1am every day, in the middle of her shif
  
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• ‘A longstanding crisis’: California workers fight to reform nursing homes

  04-05-2022 11:00
  
  Union pushing for proposal to create board to oversee industry in wake of pandemic that has decimated staffingJesus Figueroa Cacho, a certified nursing assistant of the Sacramento, California area, has worked in the nursing home industry for about 25 years.She consistently works 16 hour long shifts, 60 to 80 hours per week, often working through breaks and not getting paid overtime because her employer she works night shifts and overtime accrual resets at 1am every day, in the middle of her shif
  
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• ‘It’s scary work, but I’m determined. We will make Pakistan polio-free’

  04-05-2022 10:52
  
  As the virus returns, one frontline worker tells of her daily trials and triumphs inthe fight to eradicate it for everSaima Hanif, 32, is one of Pakistan’s frontline health workers, part of a network of volunteers and low-paid women who are key in the country’s fight against polio. After 15 months of no reported cases, last week it was revealed that a 15-month-old boy had been paralysed by the polio virus in North Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan, where Hanif works. Here, she tells
  
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