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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NewsTwo hospitals ‘decanting’ to central London trust amid ‘extreme’ pressures
A pair of major London hospitals are decanting patients to central London sites as the region asks trusts to ‘super surge’ their critical care capacity, HSJ understands.
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London’s largest trust reconfigures to give covid-swamped hospitals ‘breathing space’
Barts Health Trust has declared the sickest covid-19 patients along with emergency care and trauma admissions will be seen at the Royal London Hospital to give other hospitals in the group ‘breathing space’.
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All trusts to start vaccinating staff from Monday
All English trusts will be established as vaccine ‘hospital hubs’ by next Monday and will be responsible for vaccinating frontline health and social care staff against coronavirus.
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Regulator waives clinical exam so overseas nurses can bolster covid push
Overseas-trained nurses have been told they can join the temporary coronavirus register without undertaking a formal ‘clinical assessment’ in an attempt to bolster the NHS workforce as the third covid wave surges.
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Teaching trust’s staff ‘utterly rinsed and completely wiped out’ by elective targets
A major London trust’s critical care staff have urged leaders to review elective work targets amid serious concerns over workload, safe staffing and burnout, HSJ has learned.
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Board go-ahead for merger to create UK’s largest trust
The merger of two foundation trusts to create the UK’s largest healthcare provider was approved.
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Nurse seeks funds to take sexual harassment complaint to tribunal
A specialist nurse is taking her employer to tribunal over the handling of a sexual harassment complaint she first raised five years ago.
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Trust chair whose appointment was queried by CQC steps down
A former Post Office chief executive is standing down as chair of a major acute trust after two years.
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Nursing union chief appointed to trust board
Royal College of Nursing chief Dame Donna Kinnair will join the board of a London mental health trust next year.
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PM’s local hospital warned by CQC over covid infection control
A hospital serving the prime minister’s constituency has been issued a warning notice by inspectors over poor infection control, including staff having to share two small toilet cubicles for changing.
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NHS must review ‘all disciplinary procedures’ by March following nurse’s suicide
Trusts have been urged to reflect on their disciplinary procedures, and review them annually where required, following the death of a senior nurse who took his own life after being dismissed.
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Nearly half of trusts report no BAME staff in top management tier, HSJ investigation reveals
Nearly 100 trusts have no ‘very senior managers’ who are declared to be from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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Trust CEO asks for ‘scientific evidence’ on covid vaccine safety to reassure staff
NHS trust chief executives have told HSJ they need more clarity the Pfizer-BioNTech covid vaccine is safe to reassure their worried staff.
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Exclusive: Three trusts paying US firm £210m for tech catch-up
A new electronic health record system will cover three linked London trusts in a deal worth £210m as they look to catch up with peers on tech maturity, they have revealed to HSJ.
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Troubled trust on PM’s patch confirms new chief
A troubled trust has announced it will make its interim chief executive permanent, after her predecessor’s departure in the wake of a staff coronavirus outbreak.
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Nurse charged with murders in connection with baby deaths
A nurse has been charged with eight counts of murder, and 10 counts of attempted murder, following an investigation into a number of baby deaths at a hospital in the north west of England.
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Go-ahead given for hospital rebuild backed by PM
Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has given the go-ahead to the building of a new ‘specialist emergency hospital’ – which was pledged as one of six major rebuilds by the prime minister – the month after it was called in.
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Teaching hospital’s new boss leaves ‘after 57 days’
A new site chief for King’s College Hospital left the organisation shortly after joining, amid significant turnover in the foundation trust’s executive leadership team, HSJ has learned.
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Trust accused of ‘racism, discrimination and bullying’ as staff partnership halted
The staff-side committee of a major hospital trust has stopped working with its leadership, with its chair alleging an ‘endemic’ culture of ‘racism, discrimination and bullying’.
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Rising covid absences will have ‘significant impact’ on NHS recovery
Increasing staff absence due to covid-19 will have a ‘significant impact’ on the ability of the NHS to deliver critical care services and routine operations, leading intensive care doctors have said.
