All articles by Nick Kituno – Page 9
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News‘Insulting’ cut to staff support services confirmed by NHSE
NHS England has issued a ‘tokenistic’ and ‘insulting’ funding settlement for staff mental health and wellbeing hubs this year, which is not enough to provide proper support, HSJ has been told.
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NewsRedundancy pay cap ‘would hit ICB and national staff’, union warns
Integrated care board and national agency staff could be hit by government plans to cap redundancy payments at £100,000, as they are required to cut running costs, a union has warned.
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NewsMinisters refuse to set target for ending maternal deaths disparity
The government has rejected calls to set a target and strategy to end ‘appalling’ disparities in maternal deaths.
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NewsNHS staff could be banned from agency work, says workforce plan
Substantive NHS staff may have to be blocked from undertaking work for the service through agencies and instead have to sign up with the temporary staffing banks operated by trusts, says the new NHS long-term workforce plan.
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NewsICSs handed leading role in delivering long-term workforce plan
Integrated care systems have been given a lengthy to-do list as part of the drive to deliver the NHS’s long-term workforce plan.
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NewsNo new barriers to EU staff working in the NHS until at least 2028, government announces
Healthcare staff from the European Union can join or continue to work in the NHS for the next five years without undergoing additional exams or further assessments, the government has decided.
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NewsConsultants vote to strike in July
Hospital consultants in England have voted in favour of taking strike action over their pay dispute with the government, the British Medical Association has announced.
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NewsBlack patients worst affected by 2016 junior doctors’ strike
Black patients at trusts most affected by 2016’s junior doctors’ strike suffered significantly more than their white or Asian counterparts, a new analysis has suggested.
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NewsStop discrimination at ‘first hurdle’, race case victim tells trust leaders
A trust has been told to not ‘shut down’ staff who raise concerns by a former employee whom a tribunal found was racially discriminated against.
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NewsMedic who stood to be MP appointed hospital CEO
A trust has appointed a new hospital site ‘chief executive’, whose predecessor stood down after less than two years.
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NewsAll NHS board members to get equality objectives
Trusts and systems must draw up plans to improve the diversity of their executive and senior leadership teams over the next 12 months, and evidence progress against them by summer 2025, NHS England has announced.
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NewsNHS ‘missing 10,000 managers’
Up to 10,000 NHS managers have been “missing” from hospitals and community services since 2010, according to a new report.
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NewsConsultants set July strike dates
Hospital consultants in England will walk out for two days in July if their ongoing strike ballot is successful, they have said.
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NewsTrust refuses to wait for hospital rebuild
Waiting until 2030 to start redeveloping its hospital would be ‘hugely damaging’, a leading trust’s chief executive has said, after it was identified as one of eight schemes which will not be funded before that date by the government’s new hospitals programme.
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NewsFear of mass staff exit stoked by record rise in pension claims
The number of NHS staff claiming retirement benefits has reached its highest level in nearly a decade, figures seen by HSJ have revealed.
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NewsLabour would delay and review capital projects, says Starmer
More capital delays to key NHS projects could be on the horizon under a Labour government, it has emerged, as Sir Keir Starmer unveiled his plan for the health service.
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NewsStaffing agencies ‘pushed out’ by tighter NHSE price caps
Staffing agencies that adhere to NHS England’s national price caps framework are being ‘pushed out’ of the market due to a lack of flexibility, they have warned.
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NewsNHSE director’s discrimination claims dismissed by tribunal
An employment tribunal has thrown out claims brought by an NHS England director of race and sex discrimination against his employer and its former chief people officer.
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NewsSuing trust for £56m is ‘last resort’, says Lloyds Bank
Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed it supports a PFI firm taking legal action to claim £56m from an NHS hospital trust, including tens of millions said to be owed to the bank, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMore nursing strikes planned as unions split on pay deal
The Royal College of Nursing has announced fresh strikes after its members voted to reject the government’s pay deal, while Unison healthcare staff voted in favour.