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NewsSlow progress on gender balance for NHS boards
Achieving an even gender balance on NHS organisations’ boards by 2020 is now a “much harder task” than it was a year ago, as only a quarter of providers have so far met the target.
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NewsExclusive: Low job satisfaction driving managers out of NHS
Four fifths of managers planning to leave the NHS say changes in workload and job satisfaction are to blame.
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NewsLondon trusts to pay for thousands of EU staff's ‘settled status’
Trusts across London have confirmed they will reimburse EU staff applying for settled status to live in the UK after Brexit.
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News'Don't penalise trusts for reducing surgical activity', says royal college
Patients should be offered clinical alternatives to surgery, including “no surgery”, to ease pressure on the health service, the new head of the Royal College of Anaesthetists has told HSJ.
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NewsTeaching trust's long-standing medical director to retire
The medical director of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust is to retire at the end of January, it has been announced.
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NewsDoubling the number of medical students is ‘not affordable’
Doubling the number of medical students is “not affordable”, the chief executive of Health Education England has said.
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NewsInterim CEO takes over at North East FT
North Tees and Hartlepool Foundation Trust has appointed Julie Gillon, former chief operating officer and interim CEO, as its substantive chief executive.
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NewsShelford Group trust chief criticised over unfair dismissal
A Shelford Group chief executive was “deliberately misleading” or failed to show sufficient “care and attention” in the dismissal of a whistleblowing surgeon, an employment tribunal has said.
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NewsTeaching trust will pay for EU staff to seek 'settled status'
A large hospitals trust has said it will pay the cost for hundreds of its EU staff to apply for settled status to live in the UK after Brexit.
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CommentNHS accountants have a responsibility to act in the public interest
According to a pioneering survey undertaken over the summer by CIPFA, accountants in the NHS appear to feel more pressure to compromise their ethical values than those in the wider public sector, notes Dr Eleanor Roy
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NewsLeadership changes for academic health science networks
The umbrella body for England’s Academic Health Science Networks has announced a new chair and vice chair.
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NewsNHS England rubber stamped CCG director on £1,920 a day
NHS England approved the use of an interim director providing turnaround support for a clinical commissioning group at a cost of £1,920 a day, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHS to train nurses in using safe staffing tools
Senior nurses will be trained in how to use the Safer Nursing Care Tool to help tackle inconsistent safe staffing plans in the NHS.
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NewsMedical student numbers should double to avoid 'absolute disaster'
The number of medical students need to double in the next decade to avoid “an absolute disaster”, the new head of the Royal College of Physicians has told HSJ.
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NewsHEE to become 'accountable to NHS Improvement'
Health Education England will be made “accountable” to NHS Improvement, chief executives have been told, as a number of measures are announced to create ”a more coherent approach to workforce development”.
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NewsShelford Group trust chief takes charity role
The former chief executive of a Shelford Group hospital trust is taking up a role leading a charity.
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CommentThe long term plan must break the cycle of winter crises
The coming winter is likely to be even more difficult than the last due to system wide demand/capacity gap, but the NHS long term plan offers a ray of hope to enable service transformation, says Claire Helm
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NewsExclusive: The highest paid interim managers
An investigation has revealed some of the highest interim manager payments by NHS trusts, including a chief operating officer who cost his trust the equivalent of £700,000 per year.
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HSJ LocalNew senior operations team for troubled acute trust
A trust recovering from serious problems with its accident and emergency services has appointed a new chief operating officer and medical director.
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CommentWhat next for advanced clinical practice education?
If advanced practice education is to expand and evolve to meet changing population need, educators need to be able to invest in capacity, capability and staff, writes Professor Ruth Taylor