health
As nurses vote for historic industrial action, is Bristol facing a winter of strikes?
Nurses have voted for a national strike over pay for the first time ever, joining Bristol workers across multiple industries pushing for better pay and conditions as the UK goes from the cost of living crisis into recession.
‘I was hospitalised with monkeypox. I would never want anyone to go through what I’ve been through.’
Carl Williams, 29, was the first monkeypox patient to be admitted to Southmead Hospital. He speaks out about the desperate need for more education about the rare disease and gives his advice to stay safe.
Bristol mental health patients are still being sent miles from home. How are local services trying to eliminate the damaging practice?
The city’s mental health trust is failing to stop out of area placements, but it's an uphill battle amid high demand for treatment, limited funding and staffing shortages.
