32 h. ago Holiday hacks to beat January blues as shift workers see 30 mins of daylight

Night shift workers often miss out on precious daylight during winter. A travel expert shares six practical tips to help boost mood and maximise time off.

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32 h. ago Top holiday hacks for night shift workers to beat the January blues

An expert shares top tips and travel deals to help shift workers beat the winter blues and make the most of their annual leave.

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39 h. ago Almost half of Britain's frontline working staff go three days and longer without seeing daylight over winter, study reports

During January, two in five (43 per cent ) night shift workers on the NHS and other emergency services can go three days or even longer without any daytime sunlight at all, a new study has found

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41 h. ago Night shift workers see just 29 minutes of daylight on a working day, new study finds

THE average night shift worker sees just 29 minutes of daylight on a working day during January. A poll of 2,000 workers, including 500 who work night shifts, found 24 per cent of these have felt cut off from the outside world as a result. With four in 10 late night workers going at least...

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3 d. ago Glam nurse struck off after napping for '4 hours and 24 minutes' during shift

Nurse Chimzuruoke Okembunachi, 25, has been struck off from nursing after she was caught sleeping on six occasions while working a night shift and 'endangering patients lives', the tribunal hear

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6 d. ago Easy slow cooker beef curry with 5 ingredients and 5 minutes prep time

An NHS worker's viral slow cooker recipe takes just five minutes to prepare for a delicious homemade curry ready when you get home

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2 w. ago ‘People think abuse comes with working in A&E. It shouldn’t be like that’

How a hospital is helping NHS staff realise they need not accept violence, abuse and aggression on the job Hugo (not his real name), an advanced clinical practitioner, was on the night shift in A&E at Great Western hospital, Swindon, when a drunk patient started swearing aggressively at a nurse. “When I asked if I could help, he told me, ‘Fuck off you gay cunt.’ When I asked him not to speak to me like that and to return to his seat in the waiting room, he just walked up the corridor swearing and repeatedly shouting ‘gaydar’.”Hugo said he was initially more annoyed than scared, even when the patient grabbed a crutch and started swinging it about. “There wasn’t time to be frightened,” he said. “You’re just trying to protect your colleagues and the patients.” He called security and in the end the police had to arrest the patient. He said although he had experienced aggressive and violent behaviour – over the course of his career, he has been kicked, spat at, pushed and intimidated...

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3 w. ago The perfect way to look after your health if you work shifts

There are many knock-on effects of working nights or early mornings, and often employers could do more to protect staff. But there are small, simple changes that can make all the difference• Sign up here to get the whole series straight to your inboxApproximately 8.7 million people in the UK work night shifts, but humans are not meant to be awake at night. “It goes against our natural circadian cycle,” says Steven Lockley, visiting professor at the Surrey Sleep Research Centre, University of Surrey. “We have a clock in the hypothalamus in the brain, and that clock has evolved to control many aspects of our physiology.” This includes metabolism and immune system, hormones, and heart, lung and brain function. “We’ve evolved to be awake in the daytime and asleep at night. When we do shift work, we’re going against what our natural rhythms want us to do.”This is true not just for those who work in the dead of night, but for those who work early and evening shifts. It means, says Lockley...

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