Kate Garraway's husband has sadly lost his ongoing health battle, aged just 56. The Good Morning Britain star issued a statement on Instagram today, Friday 5 January, saying she held her husband's hand as he died.
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An agency nurse says staff are in uproar after their pay was cut days before December shifts began, claiming some of them have had to 'cancel Christmas'.
Since the summer, agency staff at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust were on a temporarily 'enhanced' payment scheme, increasing the normal rate for an agency nurse from £16-an-hour to £25-an-hour. But on November 24, they received a message to say those increased pay packets would stop just six days later on November 30, according to an agency nurse who works shifts for the trust.
The nurse, who wishes to remain anonymous, says this change ruined the Christmas plans of many staff like her. "All of the shifts we've booked for December, thinking they would give us a certain amount of money for over Christmas, these will all go back down to the normal rate," she said.
"I was extremely upset, but it's not just me. There are some nurses asking what they're going to do over Christmas, saying 'we have had to cancel Christmas."
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Agency nurses, also known as bank nurses, work for hospitals on a temporary basis and are supplied through an agency rather than working directly for the NHS with a contract. Often, agency nurses fill any staffing gaps on wards and in the community - and nurses can often pick up shifts at very short notice.
During long periods of short staffing which have been prevalent in the NHS over the last year amid ongoing strikes, the rates for agency staff can rise in order to attract nurses to pick up short notice or unsociable shifts. The
Kate Garraway's husband has sadly lost his ongoing health battle, aged just 56. The Good Morning Britain star issued a statement on Instagram today, Friday 5 January, saying she held her husband's hand as he died.
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