Teachers risk dying in classrooms if illnesses ignored, union told

Neil Jeffrey was the head of modern languages at an Oxford secondary school when he had a heart attack. Photograph: Simon Boothe/NASUWT/PATeachers in the UK run the risk of “dying in their classrooms” if they are forced to work through serious illnesses, a teaching union conference has been told after a member revealed dramatic evidence.Neil Jeffrey, a secondary school teacher, opened his shirt to show the scars left by a triple heart bypass operation he underwent 10 weeks ago, durin