health workers

THE north's health workers are to receive a wage increase in line with a UK-wide pay body's recommendations but senior civil servants tasked with negotiating other public sector pay claims have been told that any settlements "must be affordable".

NEW figures have shown just 15 per cent of health workers in the Republic have had a booster vaccine, despite fears of a Covid winter surge.

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DOCTORS and nursing leaders have issued a joint call for the restoration of devolved government to address the "deepening crisis in healthcare".

There will be considerable concern over the error which led to a substantial number of health service workers receiving wages which in some cases were reduced by several hundred pounds due to unexpected pension deductions.

NHS workers must get a proper pay rise, the north's main unions have said.

Prayers were offered in the coastal north Antrim village of Cushendall yesterday for a young woman who remained in a critical condition in hospital last night following a car crash in Co Antrim.