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NewsResident doctors to strike for five days next month
Resident doctors in England will strike for five days next month, the British Medical Association has announced.
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NewsLocal systems must ‘comply’ with new medicines access policy
NHS England wants to standardise local drug formulary teams and operations while it develops a single national formulary over the next two years, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCQC chief quits with ‘immediate effect’
The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has quit with “immediate effect”, the regulator has announced today.
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NewsTrust hires railway chief to lead £2.2bn private funding bid
A railway infrastructure chief will head a “taskforce” to deliver a £2.2bn new hospital project after it was delayed by the government’s national programme.
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NewsTrust picks US patient record supplier
One of the seven NHS trusts still relying on paper records has selected a provider for its electronic patient record.
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NewsEx-tabloid editor to review ‘integration’ of DHSC and NHSE media teams
Wes Streeting has hired a former newspaper editor to review the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England’s “media and digital work”.
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NewsCQC prosecutes hospital over ‘avoidable harm’
The Care Quality Commission is prosecuting a large hospital trust for allegedly exposing a patient to a “significant risk of avoidable harm” by failing to provide safe care and treatment.
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News‘Troubling’ bid to curb checks for restricted patients
Government is making a legal bid to curb the need for health and care providers to get council sign-off and oversight when they admit and put restrictions on people with limited mental capacity.
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NewsHospital chief steps down after a decade
A chief executive of a hospital trust is stepping down after nearly a decade.
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NewsTwo trusts removed from maternity probe
Two trusts have been removed from the health and social care secretary’s “rapid” national investigation into maternity services, a month after they were included.
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NewsNHS productivity slows despite ministers hailing ‘green shoots of recovery’
Hospital productivity growth has “slowed sharply” in recent months, new analysis has revealed, prompting experts to warn the NHS is set to miss a key government target.
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NewsNHSE intervenes over trust’s leadership failures
NHS England has taken legal enforcement action against one of England’s biggest teaching trusts over concerns about its leadership and governance.
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NewsDHSC to spend £8m on IT for NHSE takeover
The Department of Health and Social Care is expecting to spend at least £8m on new IT infrastructure to aid its takeover of NHS England’s functions.
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NewsNational director’s trust expanding subco despite opposition
A trust led by an NHS England director is planning to move about 400 staff to a subsidiary company, despite union opposition and a national U-turn on subcos.
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NewsSupplier boss bribed NHS manager for contracts and ‘assistance’
A director of a patient transport firm has been given a 16-month suspended prison sentence for bribing a procurement manager to help secure NHS contracts worth £223,000.
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NewsThe 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic people in health: Full list
The top 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic leaders in English health and care – listed alphabetically
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NewsNHS’s minority ethnic leaders, finally, have real power in their hands
The snowy white peaks of healthcare leadership are at last beginning to show significant signs of diversity.
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NewsThe 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic people in health: The alumni
Alphabetical by surname: Sponsored by Dame Elizabeth Anionwu, emeritus professor of nursing, University of West London Professor JS Bamrah, former chair, British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin Yvonne Coghill, former director for the Workplace Race Equality Standard implementation, NHS England Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, former chief midwifery officer, ...
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NewsThe 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic people in health: The judges
The judges for 2025’s list of healthcare’s 50 most influential Black and minority ethnic leaders
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NewsNow or never – leadership diversity across the NHS
This list celebrates the contribution of Black, Asian and ethnic minority staff working across the healthcare system.