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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: The estates gender imbalance in senior bands
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce. This week’s column is by HSJ’s ...
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NewsChild health checks failed to recover after covid, figures show
Inadequate health visiting provision has led to gaps in care for children and heaped pressure on acute services, senior clinicians have told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalStruggling trust hit with CQC warning notice
A scandal-hit trust has been issued a warning notice over staffing levels in medical care.
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HSJ LocalTrust CEO to depart after eight years
The CEO of a trust with one of the lowest staff satisfaction rates in the NHS has announced she will step down next year, eight years after taking up the post.
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NewsNew chair will ‘reset group model’ across three trusts
Three Midlands hospital trusts with a combined turnover of more than £2bn are moving to share a single chair, who wants to drive further collaboration and partnership between them, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Manchester must get a grip on electives
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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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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HSJ LocalTrust chair agrees to stay for sixth term
A long-serving trust chair has reversed his decision to leave and will instead serve his fourth one-year term.
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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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NewsTrust CEOs’ strike warning: ‘If anyone gets sick, we’re stuffed’
The leaders of acute trusts across England have told HSJ the second junior doctor’s strike ‘feels very different’ from the first stoppage, and services are much more vulnerable because of ‘thinner’ consultant coverage.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: The toughest week since peak covid
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, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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NewsDHSC staff bemoan lack of vision
Most staff at the Department of Health and Social Care do not believe their managers have a ‘clear vision’ or that changes to the organisation are either positive or well handled, according to survey results.
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NewsFury greets cuts to funding for social care’s contribution to integration
Confirmation the government has cut hundreds of millions from budgets partly designed to boost health and care integration has been met with fury, with the decision described as leaving the social care reform agenda in ‘tatters’.
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NewsUse of private providers damaging NHS eye care, survey reveals
The independent sector should be commissioned to provide more NHS outpatient appointments, rather than just be focused on cutting cataract waiting lists, the president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists has said.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Doing the right thing
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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News‘Free’ NHS makes people ‘lazy’ says pharmacy chief
The director of a leading pharmacy chain invited to advise the prime minister on healthcare reform has claimed the NHS makes people too ‘lazy’ to take responsibility for their health.
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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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NewsTrusts given five years to achieve safe midwife staffing
NHS trusts have been given until 2027-28 to employ enough midwives to meet safe staffing requirements, NHS England’s new maternity delivery plan has said.