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SCRAPPING the bursary for student nurses will wreck dreams and deepen the NHS staffing crisis, health workers warned at the weekend as they took to the streets against the Tory cut.
Around 500 NHS staff, students and supporters brought traffic to a standstill in Westminster on Saturday afternoon as they marched from St Thomas’ Hospital to the Department of Health.
And they were joined by fashion designer Dame Vivian Westwood, who accused the government of attempting to “sabotage” the welfare of nurses and the future of the NHS.
A new report from the Citizens Advice destroys the government narrative about disabled people ‘choosing’ not to work, showing the £3,000 annual cuts will create a two-tiered system based on claim dates rather than needs, writes DYLAN MURPHY
Seventeen years after losing her council job due to needing endometriosis surgery, Michelle Dewar’s campaign for paid menstrual leave gained 50,000 signatures in a week, reports ELIZABETH SHORT
