Nick Kituno
Nick is a workforce correspondent who covers the North West of England and joined HSJ in July 2019. Before joining HSJ, Nick was a local news reporter in south London for nearly two years.
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Revealed: Staff must now pay to park at five in six hospitals
Only around 15 per cent of England’s 140 acute and specialist trusts are still offering free car parking for staff, HSJ analysis has found.
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Trust chair withdraws before starting role
A lay member of the embattled Nursing Midwifery Council, who had been appointed by NHS England to chair a mental health trust, has decided not to take up the new role, HSJ has learned.
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Exclusive: Darzi will highlight underinvestment in NHS managers
The imminent review of NHS performance by Lord Ara Darzi will highlight the need to invest more in NHS management and leadership, HSJ understands.
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Black bank staff six times more likely to be disciplined
Black British bank workers are nearly six times more likely to enter a formal disciplinary, compared to their white colleagues, NHS England analysis has found.
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NHS England names new regional director
NHS England has appointed a long-serving trust chief executive as its new regional director for the North West, it confirmed today.
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Extra pay rise for band 8s and 9s confirmed
Many band 8 and 9 staff will receive an additional pay rise this November, after pay framework changes were signed off by unions and employers.
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Ex-management consultant to chair ICB
An integrated care board has appointed a former management consultant as its new chair.
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Trusts face ‘litigation spike’ because of Labour’s planned reforms
Labour’s employment law reforms could trigger a “spike in litigation” against trusts and create other significant challenges for managers and HR teams, senior lawyers have warned.
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Only the ‘super wealthy’ can afford to be NHS chairs
Chair and non-executive director roles are becoming harder to fill due to inadequate pay and “onerous” time commitments, research by HSJ has discovered.
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NHSE encourages trusts to take ‘robust action’ against staff involved in ‘civil unrest’
NHS staff must call out discrimination “whether it affects them directly or not” and trusts must take robust action where staff are involved in discriminatory behaviour “inside or outside of work”, NHS England has told local leaders.
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‘Tax traps’ warning for managers and doctors after pay rises
Senior medics could be discouraged from working extra hours due to the threat of excessive pension tax charges and losing childcare benefits, after the government’s latest pay award.
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Pritchard urges NHS leaders to demonstrate ‘British values’ in face of riots
NHS England chief Amanda Pritchard has condemned anti-immigration riots that took place over the weekend as “deplorable violence, intimidation and thuggery”.
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CEO ‘exodus’ threatens NHS, ministers told
The NHS could face an “exodus” of chief executives within the next two years due to a retirement bulge and intense operational pressure, government pay advisers have warned.
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Senior managers to get 5% pay rise
Senior NHS managers will receive a 5 per cent pay rise this year, while Agenda for Change staff get 5.5 per cent and doctors 6 per cent, government has announced.
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Junior doctors offered 22% rise in bid to settle dispute
The government has offered junior doctors a pay uplift worth around 20 per cent over two years to end their long-running industrial action.
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City’s trusts agree to joint committee after ICB intervention
Five trusts in the city with the most separate NHS providers have agreed to form a joint committee at the request of the region’s integrated care board.
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‘Huge emotional toll on managers’ from employment tribunal delays
Managers and staff are suffering a “huge emotional toll” — while trusts are facing extra costs — due to very long delays to hold employment tribunals, HSJ has been told.
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Cancer treatment ‘biased against ethnic minorities’
A type of cancer treatment used in the NHS appears to be biased against non white European patients, research has found.
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New chief nursing officer named by NHS England
Duncan Burton has been appointed as the new chief nursing officer for England, it has been announced.
- CEO Interview
CEO interview: Bas Sadiq, chief executive, Homerton Healthcare Foundation Trust
This is the latest in a series of interviews with chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.