All articles by Nick Kituno – Page 3
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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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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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NewsManagement training scheme more likely to reject minority ethnic applicants
Applicants from minority ethnic backgrounds are much more likely than others to be rejected by the NHS graduate management training scheme, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsManagers’ pay rise blocked at 21 trusts and ICBs
Very senior managers at 21 poorly performing trusts and integrated care boards must not be awarded this year’s pay uplift, NHS England has confirmed.
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NewsNHSE director steps down to chair care scandal trust
An NHS England national director is stepping down to become chair of a mental health trust at the centre of a public inquiry.
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NewsCuts to centre stopped under Labour
Two years of cuts to NHS England’s workforce came to an end under the first 12 months of the Labour government, despite ministers’ plans to cut the centre, figures show.
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NewsStreeting forces NHSE U-turn on subcos
NHS England has rowed back on its insistence that all trusts “have or use” wholly owned subsidiary companies to run ancillary services following intervention from the health and social care secretary.
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News‘Unacceptable’ cuts to bank and agency rates must be reversed, says BMA
Doctors are threatening action against coordinated moves in two areas to cut rates for extra-contractual work.
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News‘Fuzzy’ NHS management standards to be revised
The NHS’s first proposed skills framework for managers has too much “fuzzy language” and needs to be simplified, the NHS England board has decided.
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NewsUnions withdraw from pay review process
Most of the Agenda for Change trade unions have withdrawn from this year’s pay review process and instead urged the government to hold direct pay talks.
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Expert BriefingOn Call: Why most trusts don’t pay the Real Living Wage
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 HSJ workforce correspondent Nick Kituno.
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NewsChief of large ICB announces retirement
The chief executive of one of the largest health systems in the country has announced his retirement, after more than 40 years of public service.
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NewsExclusive: Spending freeze imposed after NHSE identifies £300m budget hole
The government has ordered a spending freeze and told the NHS to absorb the £300m cost of the most recent resident doctors’ strikes from existing budgets, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts spending most and least on training
Trusts in London have spent far more on staff training per employee than any other region in the country, new analysis has revealed.
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NewsSupplier facing strikes says its staff get ‘more stability’ than in the NHS
A major NHS supplier facing strikes next week has argued its staff enjoy “significantly better working environments” than the NHS as well as more job “stability”.
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NewsTrusts appoint 23-year-old director
Two trusts have appointed the “youngest non-executive director in the NHS”, they have announced.
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NewsTrust appoints interim CEO
A trust whose chief executive is leaving to head up the region’s integrated care board has appointed an interim successor.
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NewsBoard director ‘talent pipeline’ needs ‘refreshing’, claims NHSE
NHS England is launching a recruitment campaign to attract trust and integrated care board non-executive directors in the face of an increasing number of retirements and resignations.
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Expert BriefingOn Call: Nurses get tough
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 HSJ workforce correspondent Nick Kituno.
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NewsNHSE tough line makes little dent in impact of doctors’ strike
NHS England’s efforts to resist the cancellations of procedures and appointments during the recent resident doctors strike has had little impact, new figures show.