Nurses, paramedics,  blood collection workers and other NHS staff in new strike over pay.
Nurses will join blood collection workers, healthcare assistants, cleaners, porters and ambulance staff in a new day of walkouts over pay next month, says UNISON today (Wednesday).
The union says the strike on Wednesday 8 March is a serious escalation of the dispute and a direct result of the government’s failure to hold proper pay talks with health unions.
Health workers at NHS Blood and Transplant, Great Ormond Street Hospital, the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool Women’s Hospital and the Bridgewater Community Trust will now be among those now walking out for the first time.
They’ll be jo...
Source: UNISON Health care news - February 22, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Sophie Goodchild Tags: News Press release NHS pay rise nhs strikes Source Type: news
Pakistan ’s Free Healthcare Insurance Benefits Women, Poor
Universal Health Care priorities in Pakistan have been boosted by free healthcare insurance for the poor. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Ashfaq YusufzaiPESHAWAR, Feb 22 2023 (IPS) A free health insurance initiative started in Pakistan has benefited poor patients, especially women who have outnumbered men in using the cashless health services under the Sehat Card Plus programme.
“The initiative is in line with the ICPD25 Programme of Action, under which 4.5 million people have received free services, with 62 percent of them women. In the last three years, we have been able to cut down maternal mortality rate from 186 d...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ashfaq Yusufzai Tags: Asia-Pacific Development & Aid Featured Gender Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Population TerraViva United Nations Women's Health IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Pakistan Source Type: news
NHS dispute widens to cover most parts of England
The growing NHS dispute over pay and staffing will now cover ambulance services and other NHS organisations across most parts of England, says UNISON today (Friday).
Announcing its re-ballot results of thousands more health workers, UNISON says staff at another four English ambulance services and five NHS organisations, including NHS Blood and Transplant, will now be able to strike. This is a significant escalation of the dispute.
Following the re-ballot of staff at ten NHS employers in England, the union said ambulance staff at four services in England – South Central, East of England, West Midlands and East Midlands â€...
Source: UNISON Health and safety news - February 17, 2023 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Anthony Barnes Tags: News Press release nhs pay nhs strikes Source Type: news
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Washington, DC-area natives Taylor Givens, 29, and Collin Kobelja, 34, who received heart transplants in a Virginia hospital on the same day, rekindled their love in 2016 and married in 2019. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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Science Saturday: Can AI-enhanced heart screening address health disparities?
Clinicians and researchers around the world are combining artificial intelligence, known as AI, with health care to help identify patients at greater risk of cardiovascular diseases, such as stroke and heart failure. However, as use of these AI-enhanced tools grows, researchers at Mayo Clinic are asking, "Do these tools work reliably for people of color?" and "Are they accessible in community health care settings?" "AI-based health interventions are frequently developed and deployed without race-specific data analysis or… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
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Medtronic hit with $106M verdict in patent fight with Colibri Heart Valve
A federal jury in California decided that a unit of Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) must pay $106.5 million in a patent-infringement lawsuit filed by a rival maker of heart valve devices.
Reuters has a report on the verdict, which found in favor of Louisville, Colorado-based Colibri Heart Valve. Colibri claimed that Medtronic CoreValve Evolut devices violate one of its own patents. Colibri's patent isn't for the device itself, but rather for the method of deploying self-expanding artificial heart valves … (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - February 10, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Mark Reilly Source Type: news
Twisting of eye vessels associated with high blood pressure and heart disease, AI finds
An artificial intelligence system was trained to rapidly analyse the blood vessels of the retinas of thousands of British adults. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - February 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
It ’s time the PM ditched the pretence and came clean with the public, says UNISON
Discussions between governments and health unions in Scotland and Wales have seen strikes paused and improved pay offers for NHS staff. Now talks between fire service employers and firefighters mean yet another strike threat has been lifted.
UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said: “Dialogue can achieve great things. The prime minister should give it a go. Governments elsewhere in the UK have shown it’s good to talk to unions. That’s the only way disputes get resolved.
“Rishi Sunak says his door is open but without an invite to that mythical negotiating table, NHS staff have no choice but to go on striking.
“Ambu...
Source: UNISON Health care news - February 9, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Lucy Shaddock Tags: News Press release ambulance strikes nhs pay nhs strikes Put NHS pay right Source Type: news
Welsh government NHS pay move ramps up the pressure on the PM, says UNISON
Commenting on the pay offer today (Friday) from the Welsh government offering NHS workers an additional 3% this year, UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said:
“This ramps up the pressure on the prime minister significantly. Political leaders in Scotland and now in Wales are making the Westminster government look decidedly mean and totally out of touch.
“Rishi Sunak says he’d love to give health workers a pay rise yet claims he can’t. But he can and he should. If he doesn’t, NHS strikes will continue across England for months.
“Staff and patients in England deserve much better treatment ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - February 3, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Fatima Ayad Tags: News Press release nhs pay Sara Gorton Source Type: news
Digging in won ’t solve pay dispute, nor get the NHS back on its feet
The NHS won’t be able to deliver the speedier response times and better care the government is promising until ministers try harder to end the growing dispute about pay and staffing, says UNISON today (Tuesday).
Later today the health secretary will be asked about the government’s handling of the NHS dispute by MPs on the health and social care select committee, just as UNISON announces its fourth day of strike action on Friday 10 February.
This morning, NHS pay review body chair Philippa Hird told the committee the Department of Health and Social Care has yet to submit evidence ahead of the next pay round beginning in...
Source: UNISON Health care news - January 31, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Anthony Barnes Tags: News Press release ambulance strikes nhs pay nhs strikes Source Type: news
Unvaccinated Kidney And Heart Patients Denied Transplants Get Day In Court With Michigan Hospital
Authored by Steven Kovac via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A group of activists join Ross Barranco to protest COVID-19 vaccination mandates in Rochester Hills, Mich. on Dec. 21, 2021. (Courtesy of…#getdayincourt #michiganhospital #stevenkovac #epochtimes #rossbarranco #rochesterhills #mich #michigan #barranco #deborahcatalono (Source: Reuters: Health)
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Janssen Announces Unblinding of Phase 3 CARTITUDE-4 Study of CARVYKTI ® (cilta-cel) as Primary Endpoint Met in Treatment of Patients with Relapsed and Refractory Multiple Myeloma
RARITAN, New Jersey, January 27, 2023 – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced that the Phase 3 CARTITUDE-4 study evaluating CARVYKTI® (ciltacabtagene autoleucel; cilta-cel) versus pomalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone (PVd) or daratumumab, pomalidomide, and dexamethasone (DPd) for the treatment of patients with relapsed and lenalidomide-refractory multiple myeloma met its primary endpoint of significant improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) at the first pre-specified interim analysis. As a result of meeting the primary endpoint, the Independent Data Monitoring Commi...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - January 27, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
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New money  for NHS pay from Treasury could end dispute, says UNISON Â
The chancellor can halt escalating strike action and begin solving the staffing emergency currently causing the NHS such harm if he comes up with new money to pay health workers fairly, says UNISON today (Monday). Â
But if Jeremy Hunt continues to resist appeals to release extra cash and kickstart talks with unions to end the strikes, the NHS dispute could run for many months, says the union.  Â
This warning comes as up to 15,000 UNISON ambulance workers walk out later today for the third time in five weeks over pay and staffing, says UNISON. They’ll be joined by as many as 5,000 of their NHS colleagues at two...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - January 23, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Sophie Goodchild Tags: News Press release nhs pay Source Type: news
