PHILADELPHIA—A vehicle fleeing a Philadelphia hospital after dropping off a gunshot victim early Saturday struck three nurses who were trying to treat the patient, injuring one critically, authorities said. The silver Jeep Cherokee had just dropped off the man in the ambulance bay at Penn Presbyterian Hospital about 4:30 a.m. Saturday when it hit the […]
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak defends the allocation of levelling-up money, saying most of it goes to the most deprived part of the country. The nurses’ strike enters the second day, as health leaders begin to make contingency plans for a joint strike of nurses and ambulance workers. Sinn Fein renews calls for an Irish Unity referendum, saying […]
Nurses are striking in a prolonged dispute over pay, asking for a 19-percent raise to keep wages increasing above the rate of inflation. The government, however, says this is asking too much. NTD had this report on the nurses’ strike from outside King’s College Hospital in London.
Nurses walk out across the country. We speak to some of them outside King’s College Hospital in London. There’s some relief as inflation drops for the second month in a row in December, but food prices are still soaring. At least 14 people, including the Ukrainian interior minister, were killed in a helicopter crash near Kyiv.
Thousands of striking New York City nurses have reached tentative deals with hospitals and will return to work after a three-day walkout over demands to increase nurse-to-patient ratios they said had led to overstretched staff and undercut patient safety. Negotiations ran into the late hours of the night Wednesday before tentative deals were struck with […]
Thousands of nurses at two New York City hospitals went on strike on Monday after contract negotiations stalled over pay and staffing levels, a move that caused one of the facilities to postpone procedures and appointments. The walkout involves more than 7,000 nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and Mount Sinai Hospital in […]
Thousands of nurses across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland walked out Tuesday in a dispute over pay. Ambulance staff are set to walk out Wednesday, with staff on call only for life-threatening emergencies. Union bosses have warned these strikes will escalate unless the government engages more in negotiations.
Ministers give the green light to new oil and gas operations, saying it’s crucial to explore the potential of the North Sea and ensure energy supply security. We hear from a sociologist about why nurses are the latest group expected to strike this winter. Divisions surface as EU leaders discuss how to deal with rising energy prices as winter […]
Around 300,000 members of the Royal College of Nursing have been asked if they want to mount a campaign of industrial action. It’s the first time in the union’s 106-year history that they’ve balloted members across the UK on strike action.
LOS ANGELES—Police on Saturday identified the man who allegedly stabbed a doctor and two nurses inside a Southern California hospital emergency ward and remained inside a room for hours before police arrested him. Ashkan Amirsoleymani, 35, has been booked on three counts of attempted murder related to Friday’s attack, the Los Angeles Police Department said […]
Concerns have been raised about the U.K.’s over-reliance on overseas nurses and midwives after new figures suggest that nearly half of new workers come from abroad. Figures also show that more nurses and midwives left the register last year, with many quoting pressure as the reason for leaving.
Thousands of nurses at Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in California are striking this week over contract issues, staff shortages, burnout, and exhaustion. Nurses began their strike on Monday morning. The labor union representing the nurses, the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement (CRONA) announced the strike on Sunday, saying 93 percent […]
As one of the 10 major COVID-19-related bills was pulled back ahead of voting, two nurses reflected on what happened in their hospital in the face of mandates. They say that even religious exemption was hard to come by at times. The state’s reparation task force decided Tuesday night to only allow descendants of American […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The moment nurse RaDonda Vaught realized she had given a patient the wrong medication, she rushed to the doctors working to revive 75-year-old Charlene Murphey and told them what she had done. Within hours, she made a full report of her mistake to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Murphey died the next day, on […]
MEXICO CITY—Two men were arrested for the strangling deaths of three sisters who worked in Mexico’s government hospital system, and authorities ruled out any link to nationwide assaults on medical staff as anxiety over the pandemic escalates. Initial evidence shows the suspects, a nurse and a municipal market worker in their 20s, planned to rob […]
A group of nurses who won a Mega Millions lottery decided to donate the winnings to two nurses “going through heartbreak,” instead of splitting the winnings evenly. The nurses work together at Mercy Children’s Hospital in Missouri in the NICU unit. They won $10,000 after coming just one number away from taking home the big one. […]
