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• No money for nurses as billionaires’ wealth rises? | Letters

  23-12-2022 19:25
  Readers write in support of industrial action over poor pay by public sector workersI asked my daughter, a nurse who is 30 years in the job and working on a very busy geriatric ward, what going on strike meant for her. “I will arrive just before 7am, leave at 7.30pm, and take my full 30-minute unpaid meal break,” was the reply. In other words, she will put in the hours she is paid for, instead of arriving 30 minutes early, eating a sandwich while dealing with phones and paperwork, an
  
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• Union urges ministers to make a pay offer to striking NHS ambulance staff

  23-12-2022 17:25
  GMB says it would ballot members on even a below-inflation deal, as nurses announce two more days of actionUK politics live – latest news updatesThe head of a leading public sector union has urged ministers to make a pay offer to striking workers, insisting it does not necessarily have to beat inflation.Speaking hours after the GMB announced it would postpone till 11 January an ambulance workers’ strike planned for 28 December, the union’s national secretary, Rachel Harrison, t
  
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• Rishi Sunak confirms Scotland’s gender recognition bill could be blocked by Westminster – live

  23-12-2022 17:15
  Prime minister says ‘lots of people’ have concerns about the reform and it is right for the UK government to ‘have a look at it’This will be my last Politics Live blog of 2022, and so I’d like to wish all readers a merry Christmas and a happy new year. And I would also like to thank you for your support. Journalism can’t function without an audience, and so thank you just for reading. And if you are one of the many, many readers who contribute, thank you even
  
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• Union leader urges ministers to make pay offer to striking workers

  23-12-2022 14:50
  Nurses will stop work at dozens of hospitals in January in 55 NHS trusts as pay dispute with government escalatesUK politics live – latest news updatesThe head of one of Britain’s biggest trade unions has urged ministers to make a pay offer to striking workers, insisting it does not necessarily have to beat inflation.Rachel Harrison, the national secretary of the GMB, told the Guardian her union’s dispute with the government would only be resolved with a higher pay offer, but s
  
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• Nurses to strike for two days across England on 18-19 January

  23-12-2022 11:59
  Staff will stop work at dozens of hospitals in 55 NHS trusts as pay dispute with government escalatesUK politics live – latest news updatesNurses will strike for two days in a row at dozens of hospitals across England next month in an escalation of their pay dispute with the government.Nurses will refuse to work at 55 different NHS trusts on 18 and 19 January, 11 more than the 44 at which they staged their first strikes on 15 and 20 December. Continue reading...
  
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• Press release: £3.6 million social prescribing funding to bolster mental health support and ease pressure on GPs

  23-12-2022 01:15 via gov.uk
  More than £3.6 million of government funding awarded to the National Academy of Social Prescribing to support mental health and wellbeing, including impacts of loneliness
  
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• Press release: £3.6 million social prescribing funding for mental health support

  23-12-2022 01:15 via gov.uk
  More than £3.6 million of government funding awarded to the National Academy of Social Prescribing to support wellbeing, including impacts of loneliness.
  
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• News story: Gift yourself a life-saving vaccine this Christmas holiday

  23-12-2022 01:15 via gov.uk
  A jab this Christmas will give all eligible the life-saving protection they need this winter
  
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