|  Members of Unison, which represents thousands of NHS staff at Southend and Basildon hospitals and South Essex Partnership Trust, which provides mental health, learning disability, social care and community services, have agreed to start a week of protest on Monday, October 13. Members of the GMB, the Royal College on Midwives and Unite, which represent many more workers, are due to back industrial action over the next fortnight. Tony Hughes, the GMB's NHS lead for the eastern region, said: "The action could have the impact of bringing services to a grinding halt. - Read More MORE needs to be done to tackle the cost of living in Oxfordshire to stop hospital staff from leaving, a trade union representative has said. Sharon Akers, Unison convener for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, said extra cash should be offered to staff struggling to afford living and working in the county. - Read More Nova Scotia's government is laying the ground for another showdown with its public sector unions after promising to slow down hiring, consider relying on the private sector to deliver some services and streamline collective bargaining with health-care workers. The Liberal government took aim at public sector labour costs in its throne speech Thursday, warning that the salaries of civil service workers could not be sustained given Nova Scotia's financial pressures. - Read More Targeting a primary cause of heart disease might be enough for one research lifetime, but Fred Kummerow doesn't rest on past glory. The biochemist who was the first to pinpoint the heart risks of trans fats in processed foods - and challenge long-held theories about the role of dietary cholesterol - is turning his attention to two other debilitating diseases: Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. - Read More More than a dozen U.S. senators from both parties are calling on the Obama administration to broaden a Medicaid program for the nation's frailest seniors, calling it a proven alternative to pricier nursing home care as states seek to limit long-term medical costs. In a letter released Thursday, the senators urged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to follow through on plans to loosen restrictions on the Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly. - Read More Nurses will bring a 1916 ambulance and the Royal Flying Crops will bring a spy reconnaissance biplane model to Bourne Hall Museum in Ewell . More than 20 military re-enactors will also be stationed at the museum along with trenching tools, machine guns and other weapons. - Read More The nurses' union at one of Boston's major teaching hospitals has sued to block a policy that would require nurses to get flu shots. The Massachusetts Nurses Association suit against Brigham and Women's Hospital comes as state public health officials are leaning on hospitals to improve influenza vaccination rates among health care workers. - Read More More Nursing News Popular News from the Topix Network This is so cool. "It's raining!" "It's not!" The couple that dresses together, IMPRESSES together. These are cool...but creepy!! I don't understand. Neither do they. | 
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