Public sector

Cabinet Office instructs government departments to freeze almost all 20,000 credit cards as part of crackdown on wasteful spending.

National Pharmacy Association advises 6,000 member pharmacies to work to rule, if sufficient funding is not delivered by government.

Police widen investigation into neonatal deaths at Countess of Chester Hospital to include gross negligence manslaughter by individuals.

As many as one in seven NHS staff (14.38%) experienced physical violence from patients, their relatives or other members of...

Employers in the care sector must now prioritise recruiting workers from England, according to new rules laid before parliament this week.

The scrapping of NHS England raises questions over the training of healthcare workers in critical areas such as infection control and hospital-acquired infections.

Wes Streeting told MPs there were currently 15,300 staff at NHS England, and 3,300 in the Department of Health and Social Care. About half of the posts would go, he added.

Schneider Electric will double the number of ex-military personnel it recruits in a bid to address a shortage of skills in the transition to green energy.

NHS England’s workforce will be cut by half, with around 6,500 jobs to go, in a bid to save at least £175m annually.

Police Scotland has turned away a record 25 recruits for tattoos that went against official policy.

Migrant workers in the care sectors are being exploited by employers demanding money if they try to leave, according to the Royal College of Nursing.

GMC announces that female doctors are greater in number than their male counterparts for the first time ever in the UK.

Staff retention schemes have cut the number of health workers leaving the NHS to one of the lowest levels in more than a decade.

The chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission wrote to NHS Fife last month to remind the trust that changing rooms should include separate facilities for men and women.

A third of NHS doctors (35%) are so tired that their ability to treat patients is impaired, according to a report from the Medical Defence Union.