India Inc. Staff2020-09-07T12:08:34+00:00June 9th, 2020|iGLOBAL, News & Views|
In this second instalment of a two-part special series, ‘iGlobal’ pays tribute to the medics and clinicians from India who have lost their lives while battling coronavirus and trying to save others on the National Health Service (NHS) frontline.
Preeti Bali2020-09-07T12:10:29+00:00June 8th, 2020|iGLOBAL, News & Views|
Hailed as the backbone of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), Indian medics and clinicians have a long history of fighting on the country’s healthcare frontlines. The coronavirus pandemic has once again thrust their contribution to the fore, with many of them losing their own battle with life while trying to save others from a deadly virus. NHS Indian history July 1948 marks a historic moment in British history as the day the NHS was created – a pioneering vision [...]
India Inc. Staff2020-09-07T12:13:25+00:00June 3rd, 2020|iEntertainment, iGLOBAL|
Supported by the actors’ union Equity, #NHSLove is an initiative by the Tamasha theatre company to boost the morale of frontline National Health Service (NHS) staff during the coronavirus crisis.
India Inc. Staff2020-09-10T05:58:33+00:00May 25th, 2020|iGLOBAL, News & Views|
Two global Indian doctors on the frontlines of the National Health Service (NHS) fight against the coronavirus pandemic are taking their campaign for safe personal protective equipment (PPE) guidelines to the High Court in London. Husband-wife couple, Dr Nishant Joshi and Dr Meenal Viz, have raised over £40,500 in pledges for their judicial review case against the UK government after receiving “unconvincing responses” to a pre-action legal letter last month. Their challenge is against the government's guidance on PPE, including surgical gowns, [...]
Aditi Khanna2020-09-07T12:19:30+00:00May 21st, 2020|iGLOBAL, News & Views|
The UK Home Office has extended its offer of indefinite leave to remain (ILR), free of charge, to the families and dependants of National Health Service (NHS) support staff and social care workers who die on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK. It marks an important step towards offering some residence certainty to hundreds and is likely to impact many Indian families who have sadly lost loved ones during the crisis. According to a recent Institute of [...]
Saloni Shah2020-05-22T05:59:41+00:00May 20th, 2020|Guest Columns - India Global Business, Insight - India Global Business|
Measures to support foreign medics employed with the NHS fall short on fairness grounds. As the UK’s Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill 2020 returned to the House of Commons on its journey to becoming law, the so-called “historic” piece of post-Brexit legislation has got mired in outcries. “Our new points-based system is firmer, fairer, and simpler. It will attract the people we need to drive our economy forward and lay the foundation for a high wage, high [...]
India Inc. Staff2020-09-07T14:04:02+00:00May 19th, 2020|iCommunity, iGLOBAL|
I love the NHS – who doesn’t? It is the envy of the world. For an annual cost of £140 billion (9 per cent of GDP), the public are guaranteed a free comprehensive healthcare system. It is an undoubted success story. As the largest employer in the UK, with about 1.5 million employees, 19.7 per cent are from a black and minority ethnic background. London has the highest proportion of ethnic minority National Health Service (NHS) staff at 43 per [...]
India Inc. Staff2020-09-07T13:53:01+00:00May 18th, 2020|iGLOBAL, News & Views|
Bhasha Mukherjee is a woman of many facets – a beauty queen, a health campaigner, a charity worker and a doctor. She recently put her pageant life on hold to return to the National Health Service (NHS) frontlines as a doctor at a hospital in eastern England and is petitioning the UK government to address exorbitant staff accommodation rates for medics fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr Bhasha Mukherjee, who competed in Miss World 2019 as Miss England last year, was in India [...]
Saloni Shah2020-05-11T03:35:21+00:00March 2nd, 2020|2020, India Inc Views - India Global Business, Region Focus, UK Edition – 28 Feb-12 March 2020|
The West Midlands region of England has pegged itself as an important base for medical science project collaborations through an annual India-UK Healthcare Conference. Highlights: Healthcare has been identified as a priority sector for the India-UK relationship. The India-UK Healthcare Conference, a collaboration between the Consul General of India in Birmingham and the UK’s Department for International Trade (DIT), is aimed at promoting the exchange of knowledge and best practice for closer cooperation on future research projects. A combination of [...]
Saloni Shah2020-05-11T05:49:44+00:00January 31st, 2020|2020, Home Page, The Big Story, The Big Story UK - India Global Business, UK Edition – 31 Jan-13 Feb 2020|
Healthcare has often been described as an important aspect of the UK-India partnership, with the vision of Modicare finding a natural connect with the UK’s state-funded National Health Service (NHS). As the UK opens up this sector with a new NHS Visa and an ambitious healthtech drive, it is time to renew and review this bond fit for a post-Brexit world. Highlights: Over 5,000 diagnostic centres in India are being planned using NHS expertise, equipment and suppliers as part of [...]
