Nick Kituno
Nick is a workforce reporter who joined HSJ in July 2019. He covers employment and workforce equality and discrimination. He has been writing about BAME outcomes and other health inequalities during the covid crisis. Prior to joining HSJ, Nick was a local news reporter in south London for nearly two years.
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- nick.kituno@wilmingtonhealthcare.com
NewsMajor trust urges staff to take one-off PCR test amid local ‘surge’ testing
A major London trust has urged all staff who work on its sites to take a one-off covid PCR test “as soon as possible” amid surge testing in local areas.
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Elective recovery requires ‘very radical’ service change, says Stevens
The NHS must think “very radically” about how it redesigns its elective pathways following the coronavirus pandemic, Sir Simon Stevens has told HSJ.
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NHS Confed hires former Blair adviser as new CEO
The NHS Confederation has hired a former adviser to prime minister Tony Blair as its new chief executive.
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Two major hospitals share ex-Unilever boss as director
A former Unilever boss is now a permanent director at two major London providers.
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NHSE must act to shrink ethnic pay gap, says government report
NHS England should undertake a strategic review of the causes of ‘disparate’ pay and, where discrimination is found, ‘spell out’ measures to address it, according to a new government report.
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Ex-NHS Improvement boss to chair major acute trust
A former NHS Improvement deputy chief will become the interim chair of a major acute trust after his predecessor’s appointment was queried by the Care Quality Commission.
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Australian paramedics in ‘mass exodus’ from NHS fear
A trust is warning it faces a ‘mass exodus’ of its Australian workers because of concerns over their visa status when they return home on leave in the coming months.
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Trusts told to be more flexible with staff holiday
Trusts should be flexible in their holiday policies, including letting staff carry over any unused annual leave, NHS England has said.
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Gender no longer needed to book covid vaccine
Booking a coronavirus vaccine using the national system no longer requires a person to specify their gender, to help boost access among transgender and non-binary communities.
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The Ward Round: How WRES leaders see its future
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night - and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce. This week by employment ...
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Revealed: Trusts with the worst levels of discrimination for minority ethnic staff
The acute trusts with the highest and lowest proportions of minority ethnic staff who told the NHS staff survey they had experienced discrimination from colleagues or managers can be revealed today.
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Experience of minority ethnic staff gets worse across range of key indicators
The latest NHS staff survey results suggest a significant increase in minority ethnic workers experiencing discrimination from their manager or colleagues, while showing white staff were far less likely to have been deployed on covid wards.
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NHS England ‘reboots’ race work to ‘focus down hard’ on laggard trusts
NHS organisations will be given specific actions to improve their progress on race equality, as NHS England’s equality chiefs say they will “focus down hard” on those who need to improve.
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Exclusive: GPs’ survey finds race discrimination in NHS treatment of primary care
A survey of an area’s GPs and other primary care staff found those from a minority ethnic background feel they are less involved in decision making and less respected by their colleagues, according to results shared with HSJ.
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Staff who refuse covid vaccine face 'one-to-one’ with managers
NHS England has called for line managers to have one-to-one conversations with staff who have refused the covid vaccine by next week, to discuss its ‘powerful protective effects’.
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Government recommends 1pc pay rise for NHS staff
The government has recommended a headline 1 per cent pay increase for NHS staff next year.
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‘Severe risk’ of doctors cutting hours or retiring early after tax relief frozen
Experts are warning of a ‘severe risk’ doctors may scale back their hours or retire early after the Budget delivered a “kick in the teeth” five-year tax relief freeze.
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Minority ethnic candidate chances of recruitment in NHS fall back, finds NHSE
The likelihood of minority ethnic candidates being appointed from NHS shortlists compared to white applicants is at its lowest rate so far recorded, while other key race equality indicators have “not improved over time”, according to NHS England’s latest annual evaluation of progress.
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Two in five NHS staff feel anxious, NHS England reports
Around 40 per cent of NHS staff reported feeling anxious during the recent coronavirus surge, but results were 10 percentage points worse for minority ethnic workers, according to NHS England’s surveys.
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Tribunal ‘astonished’ by trust’s handling of legitimate race discrimination concerns
A children’s nurse who raised legitimate concerns over racial discrimination at a major London trust was suspended and victimised by her managers for doing so, an employment tribunal has ruled.
