Foreign doctors and nurses working in the NHS have their visas extended for a year so they can stay to help save the lives of coronavirus suffers Visa due to end on or before October 31 will automatically be extended for a year Medics are currently working their socks off helping save lives in pandemic … Read more
Help desk staff are being recruited for new Nightingale hospital on £37,500 a year – £13,500 MORE than average wage for British nurses EXCLUSIVE: Job adverts are for Nightingale Hospital at ExCeL Centre in London Help desk staff work 12-hour shifts, four days on and four days off for £37.5k NHS nurses’ starting salary is … Read more
Robots are being used in an Irish hospital to do basic admin tasks ‘so nurses can spend more time treating coronavirus patients’ Software firm UiPath partnered with Mater Misericordiae University Hospital They will rapidly go through basic administrative tasks to free up nurses It is hoped they will be able to spend more of their time tending patients … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
NHS nurses on Britain’s coronavirus frontline tell how colleagues are now REFUSING to go into work after ‘being forced to buy their own aprons’ and treat ‘coughing’ patients without face masks due to supply shortages Nurses at two major London hospitals have said they don’t have enough stock Warning comes as the UK is reportedly … Read more
Nurses have been pictured wearing clinical waste bags on their heads and feet at an NHS hospital that has been overwhelmed by coronavirus. Northwick Park hospital, in Harrow, London, declared an emergency situation on Thursday after all of its critical care beds were filled with patients. It took 24 hours for the hospital to stand … Read more
‘Dear superheroes in scrubs’: Kids leave adorable note and sacrifice their pocket money to buy gift bags doctors and nurses fighting the coronavirus Kaleisha Pilkington said her children wanted to help Australian doctors, nurses They put together gift bags for the ‘superheroes in scrubs’ and penned a poem Other Australians have banded together to help … Read more
More than 65,000 former nurses and doctors will be told ‘Your NHS Needs You’ as a national recruitment drive is launched in an effort to defeat the coronavirus outbreak. The drive comes as Boris Johnson took time to thank you to ‘everyone working in our NHS’. In a tweet the prime minister told NHS staff of … Read more
Pressure is mounting on the UK Government to upgrade its coronavirus testing as other countries switch to diagnostic kits that take just minutes to produce results. Boris Johnson today announced testing will be ramped up to 25,000 a day after coming under scathing criticism for letting thousands go undiagnosed. Only 5,000 people were being swabbed daily … Read more
The immense scale of this crisis is terrifying to comprehend, not least for those politicians and scientists who find themselves taking decisions with life and death consequences. Yet in a war, one thing should be beyond debate: you must equip and protect your frontline forces to the best of your ability, whether they are soldiers … Read more