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HSJ Awards
HSJ Partnership Awards 2020: Workforce Innovation Award
WINNER: Implementation of AutoPlanner within district nursing: Newton Europe, The Phoenix Partnership, Leicestershire Health Informatics Service and Leicestershire Partnership Trust
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News
Trust chiefs decry ‘concentration on targets’ at DHSC
NHS chief executives have cautioned against a “too one-sided concentration” on targets by the Department of Health and Social Care, after HSJ reported government had challenged NHS England over its plans for improving workforce retention.
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NHSX appoints first chief nursing information officer
NHSX has appointed its first chief nursing information officer
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Comment
We're trying to break the workforce boom and bust cycle
Workforce planning is still gripped by short-termism — we only think about it when in crisis, writes Chris Thomas.
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News
Exclusive: Leak reveals government fears over 50,000 nurses plan
Senior government officials are challenging NHS England’s plans for boosting retention to deliver the prime minister’s target of 50,000 more nurses, a leaked email reveals.
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Senior nurse who tried to whistleblow unfairly dismissed, tribunal rules
A trust unfairly dismissed a senior nurse after she tried to invoke its formal whistleblowing policy, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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Comment
Invest in a centrally-managed approach to work placements
Embedding good quality work experience in the NHS is vital to attracting the college students needed to address the workforce crisis, writes Gillian Cairn
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HSJ Local
Quality deteriorates as trust leaders drive integration
A south London trust has seen quality and safety deteriorate in some areas as its leadership focussed on major strategic changes, according to a Care Quality Commission report.
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Government ‘proved wrong’ as nursing drop-outs stable
The drop-out rate for nursing students did not fall in the first year of the nursing bursary being replaced with a loan system, according to new official data.
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Expert Briefing
Not everyone wants to be a doctor
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night — and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping ...
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News
NHS fails to spend £150m of apprenticeship levy
The NHS failed to spend over 70 per cent of the £200m NHS apprenticeship levy, planning guidance published today said.
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Local NHS must give more support to PCNs, says government adviser
Local leaders have not provided enough support or investment to primary care networks, according to a senior GP who led a government review.
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Comment
Trust is as important as money or staff for community services reform
Trust is needed as well as money and staff to deliver an unprecedented reform in community servicesservices, writes Matthew Winn as NHS England’s national director.
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David Behan steps up calls for multiyear funding settlement
Health Education England’s chair has stepped up calls for government to give it a multiyear funding settlement in 2020, after a period of “annual budget setting”.
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HSJ Local
Hospital’s staff shortages and poor culture persist, says CQC
Problems with culture, racism and staff shortages compromising safety have persisted at one of England’s three secure hospitals, the care regulator has warned.
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Expert Briefing
Scoring points with international recruitment
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night — and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping ...
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News
CQC did not see damning maternity report for three years
The Care Quality Commission has said it only saw a damning report into a series of failings in a trust’s maternity services three years after it was written.
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Exclusive: Trusts told to join forces to boost overseas recruits
Trusts have been told to collaborate with others to increase the “efficiency and scale” of international recruitment, in new national guidance shared with HSJ.
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Integration pioneer trust hires director to join up services
A trust whose chief executive is also in charge of commissioning for its patch has appointed a director tasked with helping “join together” health and care services.