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A local health board in the UK could be recruiting as many as 900 nurses, mostly from Kerala, in the course of next four years to address workforce shortages

Covid has highlighted the need for adequate infrastructure and health care workforce, especially doctors and nurses

Nurses employed in the UK's state-funded National Health Service (NHS), many of them Indian, are joining picket lines up and down the country on Thursday in the biggest strikes in history to demand better pay and working conditions amid a cost-of-living crisis. Up to 100,000 nursing staff are taking part in strikes in England, Northern Ireland and Wales in protest against what they say is years of real-terms pay cuts due to inflation and concerns over patient safety. A further day of strike action is also planned for next Tuesday. "For many of us, this is our first time striking and our emotions are really mixed. The NHS is in crisis, the nursing profession can't take any more, our loved ones are already suffering, said Pat Cullen, General Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). "It is not unreasonable to demand better. This is not something that can wait. We are committed to our patients and always will be, she said. RCN has been campaigning for a pay

Amid growing global demand for nurses, Singapore has a competitive edge owing to its proximity to source countries such as the Philippines and India as well as relatively painless application process, according to healthcare workers and experts. Singapore is also attempting to replace nurses lost to other nations during the pandemic, including by dangling bigger pay packets, but retention is an issue with some of these nurses eyeing a move to other countries due to difficulties settling down here, Channel News Asia reported on Wednesday. According to the Singapore Nursing Board, foreign-trained nurses who wish to work in Singapore must sit for a licensure examination and undergo a competency assessment. This is unlike other countries such as the United States or the United Kingdom, where foreigners seeking employment may also need to take extra steps such as an English language test. The cost of each test typically ranges between USD180 to USD325, depending on where they sit for it

The Delhi Nurses Federation has withdrawn its call for mass casual leave on November 16 due to the model code of conduct in place ahead of the civic polls, an official said on Tuesday. The 250-ward Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) goes to polls on December 4 while the results will be declared on December 7. On November 4, the Delhi Nurses Federation (DNF) announced that its members would go on a mass casual leave since its symbolic three-day strike did not yield a positive outcome. The federation held a symbolic strike from 9-11 am from November 2-4 to put forward their demands, which include regularisation of services and long-due promotions. "Due to rising cases of dengue, we have decided to take any further course of action after three weeks from now. If our mass casual leave protest doesn't move authorities to look into our demands, we will go for indefinite strike from November 30," DNF Secretary General Liladhar Ramchandani had said earlier. On Tuesday, he said, the ...

Britain's biggest nurses' union asked its 300,000 members Thursday whether they want to go on strike in a dispute over pay, and the UK's electricity system operator warned of potential winter blackouts, in the latest evidence of the UK's worsening energy and cost-of-living squeeze. Members of the Royal College of Nursing are voting through Nov. 2 on whether to stage the biggest strike in the organisation's 106-year history. General Secretary Pat Cullen said nurses are struggling to provide safe care for their patients because of staff shortages. The union is seeking a pay raise of 5% above the rate of inflation, which is currently at a 40-year high of almost 10%. The only way that we're going to address those vacancies and ensure that we recruit nurses into our health services and hold on to the brilliant services that we've got is if we pay them a decent wage, she said. Cullen said nurses would continue to provide critical care during a strike. The potential for a strike by nurs

One key challenge for Singapore is to find enough foreign nurses to supplement local ones to care for the elderly as the health care system will require 24,000 of them by 2030, according to media reports. "They (nurses and healthcare staff) number 58,000 now and the Ministry of Health estimates that this will need to grow to 82,000 by 2030," Health Minister Ong Ye Kung told Parliament on Wednesday. Singaporeans and permanent residents make up about 72 per cent of Singapore's pool of registered and 63 per cent enrolled nurses. The rest are from the Philippines, Malaysia, China, India, Myanmar and other countries, according to a report by The Straits Times. Acknowledging the heightened international competition for nurses, Ong added that the ministry is supportive of a suggestion by Nominated MP and breast surgeon Tan Yia Swam of granting permanent residency to good performers. He also pointed out that by 2030, one in four Singaporeans will be aged 65 and above, up from one in six .

India's nursing workforce is about half of its active health workforce, which was estimated at 3.04 million in 2017-18 by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO)

India at present has 1.96 nurses per 1,000 population, the Union Health ministry informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday

In 2014-15, while there were 3.4 registered nurses per operational doctors in the country, this declined to 3.1 in 2020-21

The pandemic has taken a physical and emotional toll on frontline workers but they are carrying on with resilience

Engineering professionals' body CEAI on Tuesday said it has urged the government to include paramedical, nursing and engineering diploma holders under the Minimum Wages Act.

The nurse to doctor ratio in India is estimated to be 1.7:1 on the basis of NSSO data, while the ratio of allied health workers to doctors is estimated to be 1:1

As more nurses leave the workforce, patient care will no doubt suffer

India is in need of 4.3 million more nurses by 2024 to meet WHO norms, nursing and midwifery professional organisations said

India had 1.16 million doctors, of whom only 80 per cent, or 0.9 million, were working, the health ministry told Parliament in late 2019

A June 5 circular had barred nursing staff at Delhi government run GIPMER hospital to converse in Malayalam.

Lauding the medical fraternity in their fight against coronavirus situation, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that the country will always remain grateful to these "real superheroes"

Randeep Guleria says most of the union's 23 demands had been met, save perceived anomaly on initial pay under sixth pay commission, adding that govt has agreed to view this sympathetically

Talked about little in the fight against Covid-19 is the condition of nursing staff