Labour’s pledge to put No 10’s planned 1 per cent pay rise for nurses at the heart of its local election campaign could mean that one well-heeled minister’s nonchalant dismissal of the nurses’ case will come back to haunt the Government.
‘There are many people in this country who look upon professional jobs in the NHS with some envy,’ Health Minister Lord Bethell said last week.
‘Nurses are well paid for the job. They have a secure job and they have other benefits.’
Is Bethell, a hereditary peer, the right man to talk about nurses’ pay? He lives with his venture capitalist wife Melissa Wong in a four-storey house in Notting Hill, which cost £6.3 million in 2011, but has since doubled in value. What’s more, they have a swish holiday home in Majorca.
Could gout drug be a COVID remedy?
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Researchers will test whether a gout drug can help coronavirus-infected adults fight off the illness at home.
Oxford University experts have begun trials on colchicine to discover whether it can speed up recovery time and stop people needing hospital care.
The anti-inflammatory drug which costs just 30p per pill has been doled out to gout patients for decades. It is used to treat and prevent systemic inflammation, a feature of gout and the worst cases of coronavirus.
Canadian experts found the drug showed promise in reducing hospital admissions in Covid patients. And Brazilian academics last month claimed it may prevent severely-ill patients from needing oxygen.