All articles by Nick Kituno – Page 2
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Expert BriefingOn Call: The big gamble in DHSC’s new structure
Essential insights into the latest workforce challenges facing NHS staff. Analysis on the key questions around recruitment and retention, staff wellbeing, and equality, diversity and inclusion. By senior HSJ workforce correspondent Nick Kituno.
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NewsExclusive: Govt debating jobs freeze on admin roles which can be done by AI
The government is considering recommending that trusts “embrace automation” by freezing recruitment and decommissioning training places, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: No 10 sets new GP access target
A new target for improving patients’ experience of making GP appointments is among three top NHS priorities identified by the prime minister for this year, HSJ has learned.
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News3,000 staff exiting NHSE
More than 700 staff have left NHS England this year through voluntary exit and redundancy schemes and another 2,300 are due to depart by next April, national leaders have said.
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NewsFirst chair for ‘NHS leadership college’ appointed
A former chair of NHS Improvement has been appointed to lead the new national “college” for senior managers and clinical leaders, HSJ has learned.
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NewsDHSC paying £1.8m for advice on ‘culture and pay’
The Department of Health and Social Care is paying a management consultancy £1.8m to help it “create and drive the right target culture” – and to advise on “pay strategy” – as it absorbs NHS England.
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NewsMotivation gap grows between bank and substantive staff
NHS bank staff motivation and engagement have increased in a new national survey, in contrast to falling scores among other colleagues.
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NewsBlack staff ‘hit harder by management cuts’
Managers from diverse ethnic backgrounds say they are “losing roles at a higher rate” than others during a wave of NHS management restructures.
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NewsCEO to depart trust battling long waits
A large trust struggling with elective care performance has announced its chief executive is leaving.
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Expert BriefingOn Call: What to put in the 10-Year Workforce Plan
Essential insights into the latest workforce challenges facing NHS staff. Analysis on the key questions around recruitment and retention, staff wellbeing, and equality, diversity and inclusion. By senior HSJ workforce correspondent Nick Kituno.
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NewsEqual recruitment worst in a decade, according to NHSE data
The relative chance of minority ethnic applicants being recruited from an NHS job shortlist compared to others has fallen to the lowest level in the decade it has been monitored.
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NewsNHSE gender pay gap hits double digits
NHS England’s gender pay gap has reached double digits, while the shortfall for disabled and ethnic minority staff also grew last year.
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News‘No further action’ against suspended CEO
An integrated care board has decided to not take any further action against its chief executive after he was suspended and subject to an internal investigation.
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NewsResident doctors announce six days of strikes
Resident doctors in England will strike for six days after the Easter weekend, the British Medical Association has announced.
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NewsDon’t ask for ‘unhelpful’ national mandates, warns NHSE director
NHS England’s national medical director has warned health campaigners against demanding “unhelpful” new national rules and mandates, as power was moving to local integrated care boards.
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NewsNHSE director to lead NHS Employers
An NHS England director is set to become the new chief executive of NHS Employers, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTechnician unfairly sacked after ex-minister’s intervention
A trust unfairly sacked a staff member after a patient’s complaint was escalated to its chief executive via former minister Sajid Javid, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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NewsLondon and acutes see big rise in absences
Trusts in London and hospital providers are still grappling with sickness absence significantly higher than beore the covid pandemic, according to analysis of the latest figures.
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NewsJust 3% of NHSE staff say change is managed well
Just 3 per cent of NHS England staff think that the organisation manages change well, according to its latest internal survey.
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NewsStaff survey results crash to five-year lows
NHS staff engagement and motivation has fallen to a historic low, with fewer than half now looking forward to going to work, new survey results show.