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Rising numbers of younger midwives quitting NHS in England, data shows
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The Guardian · World

Rising numbers of younger midwives quitting NHS in England, data shows

Exclusive: Maternity staffing shortages worsen as more and more under-35s quit because of burnoutMore and more midwives are leaving the NHS before they reach 35 because of burnout, worsening the staffing problems that are affecting maternity units.The growing trend of early career quitting has spark...

Denis Campbell Health policy editor
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Andy Burnham says he will go ‘faster’ than Starmer. Why is that so hard?
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The Guardian · World

Andy Burnham says he will go ‘faster’ than Starmer. Why is that so hard?

Is the machinery of state jammed, or is the reason for the slow pace of change more personal than institutional?Eighteen months into the 24 it turned out he would last in No 10, Keir Starmer was a man in a hurry. The biggest frustration with the job, he told MPs, concerned “speed and the ability to...

Tom Clark
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‘It’s total devastation’: inside the Amazonian war against illegal gold mining
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The Guardian · World

‘It’s total devastation’: inside the Amazonian war against illegal gold mining

The Guardian goes on the ground with Brazilian forces fighting to eradicate mining that has destroyed protected areas of Indigenous landThe jerry-built bordello at the foot of Vila Cururu, an illegal gold-mining settlement at the heart of Brazil’s most desecrated Indigenous territory, was a hive of...

Tom Phillips in the Sararé Indigenous territory
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Retired UK civil servants failed by pension outsourcing, government says
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The Guardian · World

Retired UK civil servants failed by pension outsourcing, government says

Chaos of Capita-run scheme has left some people waiting up to a year for payments and in financial hardshipRetired civil servants have been failed by the decision to outsource their pension scheme, the government has admitted, and the maladministration meant some were left waiting up to a year for p...

Anna Tims
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‘When I get home, my whole body aches’: extreme heat saps health and wages of India’s poorest workers
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The Guardian · World

‘When I get home, my whole body aches’: extreme heat saps health and wages of India’s poorest workers

Exclusive: Outdoor workers losing up to 9% of income as weather becomes ‘poverty multiplier’, research saysExtreme heat is pushing some of India’s poorest workers further into poverty, with income losses of up to 9% for outdoor workers, new research has found.Analysis done by the International Insti...

Carmen Aguilar García and Antonio Voce in London; Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan in Delhi
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