First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (Image: PA)
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UNIONS have called for urgent reform of the care sector in Scotland as it emerged one in ten are on zero hours contracts. A new analysis by the Scottish Trades Union Congress has raised concern that one in five are on non-permanent contracts and called for an end to what it described as low pay and exploitative working processes which have had fatal consequences through the Covid crisis. And it is concerned that the ten care providers in Scotland with the highest Covid death totals were all run for profit. The STUC raised its concerns while warning that care workers are more than twice as likely to die from Covid than health workers.
Quango boardroom chiefs face questions over taxpayer funded salaries
Part-time roles for quango chiefs nets them gargantuan salaries.
Dame Susan Rice said the SFC faced a significant challenge
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The excessive payments being made to the part-time boardroom bosses of Scotland’s public sector quangos can today be revealed by the Sunday Mail.
Health chiefs prepared for ‘hugely important’ hospital visiting changes 25/04/2021, 10:34 am
Bosses at NHS Grampian have welcomed the “hugely important” step to allow more visitors into hospitals across the north-east.
From today (April 26), every patient will be able to nominate one other person to see them in the wards.
A hard limit on visitation was imposed when mainland Scotland was placed in Level 4 coronavirus measures on Boxing Day.
Since then only “essential” visits have been permitted – covering births, end-of-life care, children, or accompanying people with a learning disability or mental health concern.
Lyn Irvine, NHS Grampian’s nurse lead for person-centred visiting, said staff are working to “identify someone for everyone” as the rules change.