
Shaun Lintern
Health Editor at The Sunday Times
Health Editor at The Sunday Times. National Press Awards Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Chair of @mjauk. Public interest journalism matters #E17
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6 days ago |
thetimes.com | Shaun Lintern
Doctors, nurses and other frontline NHS staff are shunning the flu vaccine in ever-greater numbers, with almost nine in ten staff at one of England’s largest hospital trusts unvaccinated last winter. Barts Health Trust, which has more than 18,750 staff working in six hospitals in east London, had the worst results in England, managing only 12.9 per cent, or 2,416, frontline staff getting vaccinated.
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6 days ago |
thetimes.com | Shaun Lintern
Doctors could co-ordinate strike action across England to cause maximum disruption to the NHS unless the government bows to their demands for a huge increase in pay. In an interview with The Sunday Times, Ross Nieuwoudt, 29, and Melissa Ryan, 45, co-chairman and co-chairwoman of the resident doctors committee at the British Medical Association (BMA), said doctors were being forced to consider strikes because of the health secretary changing position towards them.
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1 week ago |
thetimes.com | Shaun Lintern
Newly qualified doctors have to complete placements in different parts of the NHS. This includes applying for the chosen specialism they will pursue to consultant grade. The most popular specialisms in terms of number of applications by trainee doctors include general practice, psychiatry, acute medicine and anaesthetics.
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thetimes.com | Shaun Lintern
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3 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Shaun Lintern
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