Public sector

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.

A nurse who was deliberately left out of a tea round and was consistently ignored by a colleague has won £41,000 for constructive dismissal.

Engineering professor unfairly dismissed by the University of Edinburgh awarded more than £1m after a 13-year legal battle.

Sir Chris Wormald, head of the civil service, has told MPs that he thinks a requirement to spend three days a week in the office is ‘about right’.

FDA survey of civil servants' hybrid working arrangements shows almost two-thirds believe three days in the office is damaging productivity.

US government workers have been asked to list their accomplishments for the past week or resign as part of a new efficiency drive led by Elon Musk.

Health secretary Wes Streeting has called a decision by the General Medical Council to erase the disciplinary record of doctors who have changed gender ‘extremely concerning’.

NHS clinical staff in their early careers have become more stressed and unhappy over the past decade, according to analysyis of staff surveys.

The head of the British Army has condemned the ‘appalling and shameful behaviour’ of officers after more than 1,000 women shared stories of abuse and sexual harassment.

A civil servant who blew the whistle on the UK’s withdrawal from Afghanistan has won a case for unfair dismissal against the Foreign Office.

Scottish workers are awarded the biggest pay increases in the public sector, outstripping the rest of the UK.

The chairman of the Countess of Chester hospital has resigned after a tribunal found that he and others had ‘conspired’ to oust the trust’s chief executive, Dr Susan Gilby.