30 April 2020          View The Latest Issue Online          Follow Us On Twitter          View This Email Online

NEWS

Hospital bosses 'increasingly frustrated' with testing failures

The public focus on delivering 100,000 tests for coronavirus is a ‘red herring’ and is distracting from the need for a clear, updated, testing strategy.....read more

Visa extensions for frontline health and care workers

Home Secretary Priti Patel has announced that free visa extensions will be automatically granted to more crucial overseas health and care workers.....read more

Expansion of access to coronavirus testing revealed

Anyone in England with coronavirus symptoms who either has to leave home to go to work or is aged 65 and over will now be able to get tested.....read more

Life assurance scheme for NHS workers families

The families of health and care workers on the frontline in England will benefit from a new life assurance scheme during the coronavirus pandemic.....read more

NHS job applications soar following coronavirus spread

Applications to work in the NHS have jumped as the nation has backed nurses, doctors and countless other health workers battling coronavirus.....read more

FEATURES

Building a fire safety culture in health facilities

Dr David Gold and Neil Vincer, from IOSH, discuss why a sustainable workplace fire safety culture must be incorporated in a hospital setting.....read more

NHS crisis to worsen from post-Brexit immigration rules

Jack Yates, content writer for the Immigration Advice Service, discusses the shortfalls of the NHS Visa and the new Immigration Bill.....read more

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