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HSJ LocalTrust accused of imposing ‘badly disguised pay cut’ on doctors
University Hospitals Birmingham has become locked in a row with the British Medical Association over its plans to stop paying premium rates for medical bank staff.
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NewsNHSE employing temporary workers on up to £900 a day
NHS England is employing temporary workers for several years on up to £900 a day, new figures show, well above the level at which trusts looking to bring in interim staff must secure central sign-off.
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HSJ PartnersTime for that lightbulb moment in the NHS’s staffing culture
The usual solution to staff shortages is expensive locum agency doctors, but NES Healthcare proposes another idea that both lowers cost and provides continuity of care
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NewsTurnover down £160m for agency staffing firm
Turnover and profits are down at the NHS’s biggest supplier of agency staff.
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NewsNHSE reveals 10% productivity drop
Bosses at NHS England have suggested reduced discretionary efforts from staff could have contributed to hospitals being a tenth less productive than they were before the pandemic.
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NewsRevealed: ICBs plan pay bill squeeze and provider consolidation
Strict pay bill controls and more provider consolidation are key to recovery plans in most integrated care systems, according to an HSJ survey of NHS leaders.
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NewsGovernment payments for strike costs hit £1.7bn
The Department of Health and Social Care earmarked £1.7bn of extra funding to NHS England to mitigate the impact of industrial action in 2023-24, new documents show.
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News£6bn deficit warning sparks ‘horrible’ demands for nationwide cuts
Local NHS organisations are facing intense “pressure” from NHS England’s national and regional teams to cut staffing numbers to improve the service’s financial outlook for 2024-25.
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NewsStaffing agency sues trust in framework row
A staffing agency is suing the NHS after it was denied a place on a major procurement framework.
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NewsLeaked guidance signals tougher controls on agency spending
NHS systems in deficit are set to have additional controls imposed on their agency spending, according to draft guidance seen by HSJ.
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NewsReversal of ‘huge achievement’ as agency spending breaches £3bn
NHS trust spending on agency staff surged to £3.5bn last year, according to recently published figures.
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NewsHospital diverted patients rather than pay for locum doctors
A specialist hospital diverted patients to other centres at short notice rather than paying additional locum rates for doctors.
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HSJ Local‘High use of agency staff’ contributed to care failings exposed by hidden cameras
High use of agency staff contributed to the care failings exposed at a mental health trust by undercover reporters, an internal inquiry has found.
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HSJ PartnersAI model outperforms human decision-making on rate escalations, fills more shifts and saves trusts thousands
Dr Nicholas Andreou explores how Locum’s Nest are innovating to higher levels by leveraging machine learning to maximise NHS shift fill rates.
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CommentWe must be imaginative about boosting the learning disabilities workforce
Challenges in learning disability care persist, impacting lives and experiences within the NHS. Hope lies in recruiting, training, and empowering a diverse workforce for positive change, writes Dr Jane Padmore
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NewsFresh spending crackdown as NHSE is accused of ‘micro-managing’
Fifteen health systems that submitted deficit plans have been told to review all their staffing vacancies to ‘consider where the removal or freezing of posts is appropriate’.
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NewsWorkforce plan will force ministers to spend more on the NHS, warns watchdog
The new NHS workforce plan is likely to force governments to give the service real terms funding increases beyond 3 per cent a year, the government’s budget watchdog has warned.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Missing Sunak’s pledge
This week bureau chief Ben Clover is joined by colleagues to discuss some of the biggest stories ahead of the junior doctors’ strike.
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CommentAgency staff keep the NHS on its feet and deserve the government's respect
Agency staff deserve more respect than the NHS workforce plan shows them, with the plan being based on a poor understanding of NHS staffing costs, and failing to present a cohesive strategy to make effective use of agencies, writes Kate Shoesmith
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NewsNHS staff could be banned from agency work, says workforce plan
Substantive NHS staff may have to be blocked from undertaking work for the service through agencies and instead have to sign up with the temporary staffing banks operated by trusts, says the new NHS long-term workforce plan.