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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Providers criticise NHSE’s lack of action on ‘rate card’ as row deepens
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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NewsServices risk being scaled back over unfunded NHS pay rises
Unfunded NHS pay rises will likely lead to essential frontline public health and community services being scaled back, senior sector figures have warned.
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NewsMore nursing strikes planned as unions split on pay deal
The Royal College of Nursing has announced fresh strikes after its members voted to reject the government’s pay deal, while Unison healthcare staff voted in favour.
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NewsCQC staff to work to rule from next week
Care Quality Commission staff belonging to four trade unions will begin “action short of a strike” from Monday, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHSE ‘extremely sorry’ for redundancy ‘debacle’
NHS England has apologised to staff for its ‘unsettling’ voluntary redundancy scheme, which has been hit by ‘several delays and payroll errors’, resulting in incorrect exit package offers and leaving dates pushed back at short notice.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Blanket cancellations and holding out against the rate card
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsRecruitment rules for interim managers on £750-a-day plus tightened by NHSE
Very senior interim managers, including turnaround directors, employed on a day rate of over £750 will have to be hired through ‘on-framework’ recruitment agencies, new NHS England guidance has stated.
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NewsNHS England warns against block cancellations during ‘unprecedented’ strikes
NHS England has told trust, system and regional leaders to avoid “block rescheduling” of elective cases during the four-day junior doctors’ strike next month.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast | Bad Blood: The NHS agency engulfed in a racism scandal
NHS Blood and Transplant has been embroiled in allegations of racism that stretch back several years.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The NHS pay deal and who’s left out
This week we discuss a quirk of last week’s pay deal between health unions and the government, which could see staff at the top of Agenda for Change paid more than senior managers.
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NewsFour-day junior doctors strike announced
The British Medical Association has announced a fresh wave of escalated strike action that will see junior doctors walk out for four days in April.
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CommentDivide and rule on NHS pay would be disastrous
The government’s proposed settlement to resolve the current wave of industrial action sows the seeds of some incredibly difficult and possibly decisive changes to NHS pay in the future, write Anita Charlesworth and James Buchan
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NewsPay deal may lead to band 9s being paid more than senior managers
The pay offer made to NHS staff on the Agenda for Change payscale by government yesterday could see an increasing number of senior leaders paid less than the staff they manage, the managers’ union has warned.
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NewsWhat the pay deal means for each band
The government and Agenda for Change unions have reached a deal in their pay dispute, which the biggest unions will ask their members to support in ballots, while pausing strike action.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Why Hunt’s spending £1bn a year to fix NHS pensions
This week we analyse the Spring Budget and what it means for the NHS, in particular the pensions tax overhaul.
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NewsPatients ‘unaware of strike’ as some hospitals report ‘busiest day’
Acute trusts are reporting high demand at emergency departments despite junior doctor strikes, which in some cases threaten to lead to overflowing wards and long ambulance handover delays.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Everything you need to know about the NHS staff survey
With this year’s NHS staff survey results just landed, we take a look at those invaluable annual insights into how the workforce is feeling.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Consultant strike cover ‘costing up to £4,500 per shift’
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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CommentMake the mental health of NHS staff a priority
As work-related stress and the cost-of-living crisis takes a toll on mental health of NHS staff, policymakers need to ensure national-level action complements and enables local initiatives to reduce stress, improve physical wellbeing and manage workloads of staff, writes Zosia Walecka
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NewsUpdated: CQC staff vote to strike over pay
Hundreds of Care Quality Commission staff belonging to Unison have voted to strike over pay, the union has announced.