by Agency Reporter | Jun 8, 2022 | Briefing
PATIENTS WITH LONG COVID are suffering under a postcode lottery in care that will exacerbate health inequalities, delegates at the Royal College of Nursing’s annual Congress have been told. Diagnosis and treatment vary greatly across the UK – with Long Covid,treated...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 8, 2022 | Briefing
A GUARANTEED ANNUAL WINTER HEATING BENEFIT of £50 will be paid for the first time in February 2023 to around 400,000 low income households in Scotland. Low Income Winter Heating Assistance will be the 13th benefit to be introduced by the Scottish Government, and...
by Staff Writer | Jun 7, 2022 | Briefing
THE UK’S FIRST OPERATIONAL OVERDOSE PREVENTION CENTRE (OPC) visited Westminster on 6 June, as part of a campaign to persuade the government to back them. Also known as Supervised Drug Consumption Rooms, OPCs are hygienic spaces where, instead of injecting in the...
by Staff Writer | Jun 7, 2022 | Briefing
THE SEVEN BIGGEST EUROPEAN AIRLINE GROUPS are failing to take sufficient measures to reduce their CO2 emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, according to a new report commissioned by Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe. While European airlines would need to...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 6, 2022 | Briefing
NEW ANALYSIS BY THE TUC reveals that plans by Boris Johnson’s government to cut 91,000 civil service jobs will be deeper than deepest point of George Osborne’s programme of cuts in the last decade. The analysis looks at civil service staffing levels relative to the UK...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 6, 2022 | Briefing
UN HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERTS have urged Israel to stop the eviction and demolition of a Bedouin village in Israel that will forcibly displace hundreds of residents, in a bid to expand Jewish-only settlements. “Thousands of Bedouin citizens of Israel living in the Naqab are...
