Physicians
Scottish hospices, including Strathcarron Hospice, play a vital role in supporting families through difficult times, but are facing significant financial pressures due to underfunding by the SNP government. This has led to difficulties in matching NHS pay for staff, resulting in retention and recruitment challenges for the sector. Scottish Labour
Health care industry
Routine surgeries are being postponed across Maharashtra as an indefinite strike by over 30,000 nurses entered its second week on July 25. The strike, which began on July 18 with strong backing from the State Government Group-D (Class IV) Employees Federation, is demanding the immediate cancellation of the contractual
Physicians
Sandie Peggie, a Scottish nurse who was suspended from her job for complaining about sharing a changing room with a transgender doctor, is taking legal action against her trade union, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), for its alleged failure to support her during the ordeal. The nurse had launched
Murder
A Special Court in Madhya Pradesh has sentenced a doctor, Sandeep Soni, to life imprisonment for attempting to murder a nurse, Madhuri Chaudhary, in 2024. Soni had shot at Chaudhary in broad daylight at Russel Chowk, leaving her with severe injuries. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 6,
Murder
India's Nimisha Priya, a nurse on death row in Yemen for allegedly murdering her business partner, faces an uncertain fate due to a dispute over the concept of 'qisas' (retribution) versus 'diyya' (blood money). The case highlights the complexities of Islamic jurisprudence in resolving
Physicians
As the employment tribunal proceeding against NHS Fife, the health board at the center of a controversy surrounding a transgender doctor's access to female changing facilities, resumed on Wednesday, the board's credibility has been called into question. The controversy erupted after nurse Sandie Peggie complained about
Physicians
The North Savo wellbeing services county in Helsinki, Finland, has terminated the employment contracts of 10 nurses and two doctors, all of foreign backgrounds, who were hired just last year. The decision was made during the workers' probationary periods due to concerns over their professional and language skills. Many
Physicians
Nurse Sandie Peggie, who complained about a transgender doctor using a female changing room at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife, has been cleared of gross misconduct allegations just hours before her tribunal hearing was set to resume. Peggie was suspended from work in January after she complained about sharing
Physicians
A 30-year veteran nurse, Sandie Peggie, has been cleared of allegations of gross misconduct after objecting to sharing a changing room with a transgender woman doctor, Dr. Beth Upton. This decision comes after an 18-month internal process, with NHS Fife confirming that there was "insufficient evidence to support a
Murder
Nimisha Priya, a 20-year-old nurse from Kerala, India, was arrested in Yemen and sentenced to death for murder after a local trial, with her death sentence upheld by a higher court. Despite the diplomatic and religious efforts by the Indian government, Priya's execution was initially scheduled for July
Murder
The Indian government, through the Attorney General for India (AGI) R Venkataramani, has informed the Supreme Court that there is a point till which the government can negotiate with Yemen authorities to save Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya from a death sentence. Priya, a 37-year-old Indian national, is facing a death
Murder
A Kerala nurse, Nimisha Priya, has been languishing in a Yemeni prison since 2017, accused of killing her business partner, Talal Abdo Mahdi, with whom she had entered into a business arrangement for opening a clinic in Sanaa. According to Islamic law, Nimisha Priya's case can be saved
