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KEY NHS workers billeted in hotels since April to help hospitals deal with the Covid-19 pandemic may have to foot their own bills from Saturday, the Star can reveal.
Outsourced workers from St James’s hospital in Leeds contacted the Star today after they were told on Thursday that NHS England was no longer paying for their accommodation.
An operating-department practitioner (ODP), who was transferred to the hospital’s Covid ward in March, told the Star today – on condition of anonymity – that the change in circumstance had left him in a dire situation.
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