All Strikes articles – Page 4
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NewsThe NHS in 2023, told through 13 charts
Throughout 2023, HSJ has strived to make sense of the major challenges and trends for the health service.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: HSJ’s predictions for 2024
In our final episode of the year, we make our predictions for what 2024 could hold for the NHS, including the first integrated care system merger, how the strikes will pan out and manager regulation.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Actually, we’ve coped well
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE crackdown on 10-hour ambulance delays
NHS England has launched a new crackdown on trusts it says have a ‘management strategy’ to hold patients in the back of ambulances to cope with emergency pressures inside their hospitals, HSJ has learned.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The migration surge helped social care – but not enough
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Treat it like covid
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsJunior doctors announce strike in first week of January
The British Medical Association has announced nine days of further strike action by junior doctors after extended talks with the government failed to produce an offer the union felt could be put to members.
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NewsNurses demand new negotiations after pay deal ‘eclipsed’ by consultants offer
The government must re-open pay negotiations with nurses in the wake of its pay offer to consultants, the general secretary and chief executive of the Royal College of Nurses has told the health secretary.
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News‘Appalled’ nurses ‘more likely to strike’ after doctors deal, warns RCN
The Royal College of Nursing has reacted furiously to news that medical consultants have been offered a new pay deal for 2023-24, saying nurses are now more likely to strike.
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NewsBMA agrees to end ‘rate card’ demands under pay deal
The government has reached an agreement with union leaders over consultants’ pay that will now be put to members, including a commitment from the British Medical Association to cease promoting its controversial ‘rate cards’ for overtime shifts.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Can region justify its outlying workforce numbers?
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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News‘High number’ of ambulance staff could face sack for striking
Up to 80 per cent of key ambulance staff could be required to work during a strike or risk being sacked, documents released by the Department of Health and Social Care have revealed.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The new 2,000
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsElectives and capital to be cut after Treasury refuses £1bn strike cash plea
The NHS’s work to bring down the 7 million elective waiting list is being curtailed, after the Treasury refused to fund most of a £1bn NHS deficit driven by strikes.
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NewsBMA seeks consultants’ strike extension
Medical consultants in England are being re-balloted on extending their mandate for industrial action, even as the British Medical Assocation remains in talks with the government over resolving the dispute.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Criticising your own team’s a risky tactic
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsPritchard warns strikes threaten elective targets and safety
NHS England boss Amanda Pritchard has warned that meeting key elective recovery targets to eliminate 65-week waiters by March and ensure the waiting list is falling by next year is becoming “increasingly challenging”.
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NewsRevealed: Four trusts report quarter of all ‘critical incidents’
More than a quarter of ‘critical incidents’ have been declared by just four trusts since the start of the crisis in urgent and emergency care.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Trust backed into corner as strikes escalate
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsBe careful of celebrating staff as ‘heroes’, NHSE advises trusts
Trusts haven been warned to be careful of “contentious” approaches to staff recognition, such as those that mimic the “clap for carers” initiative organised during the pandemic.