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The government's Cobra committee is convening for a second emergency meeting this week to hold further discussions on how to mitigate the impact of ongoing strikes.

Prime minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to recruit more specialist personnel to clear the asylum system backlog by the end of next year, as well as informing MPs that changes to asylum law will be forthcoming.

Nurses are set to strike in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in December after showdown talks with ministers failed. Meanwhile, official figures have shown that some 417,000 working days were lost to strikes in October, the most recorded in more than 10 years.

Leading not-for-profit care and support organisation, the National Care Forum [NCF], has joined up with the Health Service Journal [HSJ] to form a series of articles alongside senior NHS leaders, which will highlight some of the major challenges facing the care industry.

The government will hold an emergency Cobra meeting on Monday to discuss contingency plans for when industrial action takes place in December.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that the economy has contracted by 0.3 per cent between August and October, suggesting that the UK is officially set to enter recession after Q4.

Late last week, the UK government secured fishing catch limits worth £202 million after DEFRA struck a deal with the EU and Norway.

We look back at a weekly diary entry from October 2020 which featured in the Financial Times’ ‘Diary of an Adviser’ feature, penned by Keystone Financial managing director Harriet Mackenzie-Williams.

Leaders Council chair Lord Blunkett discusses how the Labour party is "serious about government" again under Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership, and highlights the need for a long-term plan for skills.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and CW+ have launched a new version of a popular hand therapy smartphone app, which is designed with patients and clinicians in mind.

Addressing the severity of the latest NHS performance statistics, Nuffield Trust’s Sarah Scobie warns that the situation is likely to deteriorate as the UK heads into winter.

The UK government is reported to be considering its response to a new law set to be passed by Holyrood, making it easier for people in Scotland to obtain a gender recognition certificate.

Danielle Jefferies of independent health and care charity, The King's Fund, gives her take on the latest NHS performance statistics.

Writing on Exetherm’s online blog, company founder Ross Kennedy highlights the importance of cybersecurity in transmitting data and how his business is playing a key role in this field.