All Agency staff articles – Page 5
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HSJ Local
Trust board urged to spend £1.5m on 'essential' A&E nurses
An acute trust board is being asked to spend more than £1.5m on extra nursing staff for its emergency departments to try to improve four hour performance and ensure patients get safe care.
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HSJ Local
Trust cuts spending on agency staff by half
A trust has cut its spending on agency staff by half through greater use of electronic rostering.
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News
Employers confident contract deal will end NHS pay drift
NHS Employers chief executive Danny Mortimer has said he is confident NHS trusts will implement reforms to prevent automatic pay rises following a deal on the Agenda for Change contract.
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News
NHS accused of inflating bank rates under pressure from regulator
Agencies accuse trusts of upping rates paid to bank workers to reduce agency spend Recruitment and Employment Confederation says move may be “anticompetitive” News comes as NHS Improvement data shows £400m year on year bank spend increase, and predicts £843m overspend in 2017-18 Agencies supplying temporary staff to ...
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HSJ Local
Hospital services centralised in North East shake-up
Commissioners in the North East have approved plans to shift a range of hospital based services from South Tyneside to Sunderland.
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News
Nearly one in 10 nursing posts vacant, new data reveals
More than 8 per cent of posts in NHS trusts are vacant, including one in 10 nursing roles, according to figures reported for the first time today.
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HSJ Local
Hospital group trusts see deficit forecasts slide by £36m
One of the trusts in the Essex hospital group has seen a dramatic slide in its financial position and a series of incidents in its maternity services.
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News
NHS Improvement reveals A&E safe staffing guidance
The latest draft safe staffing guidance from NHS Improvement has said there is no evidence for setting specific ratios of staff in urgent and emergency care settings.
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News
Exclusive: Second private hospital stops taking new patients after CQC concerns
A second mental health unit run by Cygnet Health Care closed to new admissions in July after the Care Quality Commission raised serious concerns, HSJ can reveal.
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News
Doctors threaten legal action against NHS over IR35 tax rules
Unions representing locum doctors have threatened to seek a judicial review against NHS Improvement claiming the NHS is continuing to wrongly apply new tax rules.
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News
Capital's trusts to introduce 'maximum' caps on agency rates
Hospitals in London struggling to recruit medical locums to tackle staff shortages are to limit the amount they can spend even when safety is a factor from this weekend, HSJ can reveal.
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News
Exclusive: Staffing agencies' profits fall after national squeeze on rates
The four largest agencies supplying temporary medical staff to the NHS have seen a 24 per cent fall in turnover, HSJ analysis reveals.
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News
DH spent £3m on consultants for abandoned NHS Professionals sale
The Department of Health spent almost £3m on consultant advice for its plan to sell off NHS Professionals, which was dropped earlier this month.
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HSJ Local
Beleaguered trust forced to revise finance plan after 'significant slippage'
A struggling trust tasked with making savings worth nearly 7 per cent of its income is set to submit a revised finance plan after “significant slippage” in its efficiency schemes.
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Leader
Pay rises are not the priority for the NHS
This will not be the most popular of HSJ editorials. There is no doubt that most NHS staff deserve an inflation matching, even busting, pay raise – but there are also good reasons why they should not receive one.
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Comment
Hunt: NHS management is not for the faint-hearted
From tackling bullying and harassment to improving training and flexible working, we must do a lot more to boost the numbers of NHS staff, writes health secretary Jeremy Hunt
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News
Government could take back control of NHS Professionals after sale
The government will require the new owners of the NHS’s in house agency staff supplier to continue providing staff at low margins or risk ministers taking back control.
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News
Trusts told to 'go further' on agency spending crackdown
Agency spending in the NHS is still “unsustainable” and trusts must “go further” in cutting costs, NHS Improvement has said.
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News
DH spends £2m on stalled NHS Professionals sale
Nearly £2m in professional fees for selloff of stake in NHS Professionals “Project Florence” payments made to consultancies and law firm over two years Fate of project unclear since government announcement in November The Department of Health has spent nearly £2m on the stalled sale of a majority ...
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News
Exclusive: NHS ‘needs £100m’ social care boost to hit A&E target
Clifford Mann says extra social care cash needs to go on DTOCs or NHS won’t meet A&E goal NHS England A&E lead says huge boost in emergency staff needed Mann urges HEE to extend emergency medicine recuitment programme NHS bosses must persuade councils to spend £100m of new ...