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Enough money to feed yourself or even feed your children. if i am going to work and i�*m making a difference in people�*s lives, then i feel like i should be able to be compensated and have enough pay for myself to sustain myself and even look after my children. the rcn is asking for a pay rise of 5% on top of inflation — something no uk nation has offered. the ballot will open today until the 2nd of november. nurses in northern ireland have been on strike before, but if this vote goes through, it will be the first time in the rcn�*s 106—year history that there�*s been a nationwide...

Vacancies in social care and our colleagues in local government are not able to give the support that they want because of that problem. the other thing is really important, and liz truss did say during her campaign for leadership that he would put money into social care by taking it from the health service, that simply isn't going to work. if you do that you are just shifting problems around the system. we need to hear about funding today as well. and just coming back to hospitals sitting in the middle of primary care, on one side, and social care on the other, you talked about winter pressur...

It easier to appoint new roles when it's part of the primary care team. primary care teams is much broader thanjust gps and primary care teams is much broader than just gps and enhancing the role of community pharmacists, enabling the gp practices to bring in roles like advanced nurse practitioners is all good news. we have been calling for these kind of meshes and we welcome them. the challenge is going to be, firstly how we get the stuff. we have 132,000 vacancies, so it is a good thing to say that we can bring new people into the primary care team but we have got to find those people. they ...

Alarming. the challenges ahead — huge. the challenges now — rather more practical. things don't get any bigger westminster than when the removal vans turn up in downing street. tomorrow, it'll be liz truss's turn, swapping her party headquarters for number 10. chris mason, bbc news. our political correspondent ian watson gave us his assessment of the challenges that lie ahead for the new prime minister. she does have multiple challenges, actually, of course the continued support to ukraine because of the russian invasion, the health service has got a huge backlog even before the winter pre...

The 23rd of december — the highest level of infections since the data was first compiled. separate data shows the number of nhs staff at acute trusts in england who were off work rose by more than a0%. let's get more on this with anna collinson. while most of us are looking forward to celebrating this new year's eve, it's a different story for nhs workers, with winter pressures intensifying, made worse by staff sickness. the staff that are at work will be caring for more patients, trying to do more to cover for their missing colleagues, working extra hours, starting early, finishing late. th...