This is bbc news with the latest headlines. laimer the latest headlines. geeta guru murthy. a billion pound plan to improve nhs care in england including thousands more hospital beds and hundreds of new ambulances is being set out by ministers. iam i am geeta guru murthy. downing street defends the prime minister s decision to sack conservative party chairman, nadhim zahawi but labour say rishi sunak must come clean about what he knew and when. borisjohnson tells the bbc how he was seemingly threatened by vladimir putin before the russian invasion of ukraine. last ditch talks will be held with education secretary, gillian keegan, and teachers unions today to avoid wednesday s planned strike action in england and wales. a special episode of you,
This is bbc news these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. i m geeta guru murthy. former uk prime minister, borisjohnson tells the bbc how he was threatened by vladimir putin before the russian invasion of ukraine. the us secretary of state antony blinken is due to arrive injerusalem after weeks of worsening violence between israelis and palestinians. a £1 billion plan to improve nhs care in england including thousands more hospital beds and hundreds of new ambulances is being set out by ministers. downing street defends the prime minister s decision to sack conservative party chairman, nadhim zahawi but labour say rishi sunak must come clean about what he knew and when. last ditch talks will be held between the education secretary
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Long covid, they say we classify it by symptoms, similar story in wales. northern ireland and scotland do, but then it is not .60.3% of the headcount, tiny percentages but when you scale that up across 1.7 million people we estimate if those rates held across the uk you would be looking at between five and 10,000 nhs staff off sick with long covid. why are we talking about this? sick pay rules. at the beginning of the pandemic sick pay rules were changed across the uk for most nhs staff, essentially it meant if they got stuck with covid and long covid there will be paid in full but that came to a staggered end across the uk last summer but there was a buffer zone for a lot of people and the transition period is coming to an end. we have been speaking to people who were off sick with long covid and their pay, one of them