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MERSEYSIDE NHS staff who were sacked because they could not make an 80-mile round trip to new jobs have won redundancy payments after a campaign by their trade union.
More than 50 long-serving staff employed by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust lost their jobs when Calderstones Hospital at Whalley, near Blackburn, was closed.
The Trust proposed alternative jobs at Aspen Wood which is part of Broadgreen Hospital, which is 40 miles away.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
