United Kingdom: All organizations affiliated to NHS with more than 250 employees will have to publish a gender pay disparity data and submit it to Government Equalities Office latest by 4th of April. This will be the first time in the history of Great Britain that such a step is being taken and implemented mandatorily across all private and public sector bodies. Scotland and Wales have already published their figures. The public sector bodies in Great Britain are supposed to publish their reports by the end of this week.

This Easter, we had a donation drive supported The Haven, Wolverhampton to collect the gifts for the underprivileged kids in the UK. While most people like us who are fortunate to shop what we want for Easter, we realized some people do not have the same privilege.

The UK government is offering nearly 1 million of its NHS staff pay-raise up to 6.5% over a period of next three years with a condition that would take-away the healthcare professionals’ one-day holiday. The deal, if sanctioned, will provide a benefit worth £3.3bn to the staffers.

Healthcare agencies providing external staffing to the NHS are claiming the institution inflated the rates it pays for the bank shifts. This has subsequently led to them cancelling out profits made from switching provision in-house.

Are you from European Economic Area (EEA) and want to work in the UK? NHS (National Health Services) has opened gates for doctors that hold the nationality of other countries. If you had once planned to practice in the UK and never got the chance to apply for it, a good news has already surfaced the channels that NHS would spend 100 million pounds to recruit doctors from all over the world. Many recruitment agencies may be flooded with vacancies post this commencement.

Increase in the threshold to pass International English Language test (IELTS) may give a sigh of relief to the foreign nurses as NHS trust has requested to lower the threshold for non-English speaking countries.

The most awaited decree on the scrapping of 1% pay cap has finally unveiled. The hopes of thousands of nurses and the others in the public sector seemed shattered after the ministers of Parliament in the UK rejected the plea to scrap the 1% pay cap for the public sector.

Following the Brexit negotiations, it has been observed that there has been a sharp reduction in the number of EU nurses applying in the UK to practice. The figures released by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) enumerate that only 46 nurses from EU have registered in the UK in April 2017. This means that the number of applications has dropped by 96% when compared to June 2016.

Earlier this year, the majority of NHS staff including midwives, paramedics, cleaners, and radiographers were given a rise of 1%. This decision was opposed by the unions because the rise amounts to less £5 per week when calculated. This pronouncement was not at par with the rising inflation rate of 2.3 percent.