BBC Nurse consultant Jennifer Loke says she is not frightened by death threats, but abuse has taken its toll Staff at a GP surgery were left in tears and forced to call police after incidents in which angry patients threatened them and acted violently. Nurse consultant Dr Jennifer Loke, who works at the practice in … Read more
Staff at Australia’s parliament made 30 complaints of serious workplace offences such as sexual assault over nine months, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Sunday, as the legislature struggles to address a wave of scandals. The Parliamentary Workplace Support Service opened in October 2023 as a confidential service for federal parliament workers. It received 30 … Read more
Over 300 administrative staff of the Bharathidasan University (BDU) are on a sit-in protest on the varsity campus in Tiruchi since Thursday condemning non-issuance of audit certificates to retired employees. According to a statement on Friday by Bharathidasan University Staff Welfare Association (BUSWA) since 2022, 33 outgoing administrative workers of the institution had not been … Read more
Many visitors have complained of restrictions on photography by the local staff of Keshava temple at Somanathapur, though there is no such a rule. | Photo Credit: M.A. Sriram Scores of tourists visiting the Keshava Temple at Somanathpur, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are being routinely prevented from photographing the iconic monument in contravention of … Read more
Medical facilities: In a bid to offer medical facilities to its employees and former employees, the Indian Railways has announced a card system called Unique Medical Identification (UMID). These cards are specifically meant for its employees, pensioners, and their dependents. UMID is a system that assigns a distinctive number to each medical beneficiary to create … Read more
Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu holding a meeting with senior officers of discoms working within the limits of the GHMC and surrounding municipal corporations, at TGSPDCL office in Hyderabad on Thursday. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu, who handles the portfolios of Finance and Energy, asked the engineers, … Read more
Getty Images The new government has made tackling NHS waiting times a key priority – and this week appointed NHS surgeon and former health minister Lord Ara Darzi to investigate what is going wrong. Is productivity the place to start? The scale of the challenge facing Health Secretary Wes Streeting was made clear as he … Read more
5 hours ago By Matt Precey, BBC News, Bedfordshire Getty Maternity services at the Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust have been downgraded to ‘inadequate’ Maternity staff at an NHS trust faced racism from their own colleagues, a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report said. The problem was identified at both the Luton and Dunstable (L&D) and Bedford hospitals during … Read more
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