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News
Ex-director wins £70k payout over trust’s ‘inappropriate’ interview panel
A trust must pay out nearly £70,000 to its former director of medical education after an employment tribunal ruled she had been constructively dismissed.
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News
Staff warn collaboration and flexibility waning after covid
Staff have warned the collaboration and flexible working achieved during covid risk being lost, in a huge and unprecedented feedback exercise for NHS England.
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HSJ Local
Major trust faces bullying concerns from hundreds of senior doctors
Concerns over bullying and discrimination have been raised in a survey of hundreds of doctors at a major hospital trust, HSJ can reveal.
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NHS manager admits defrauding trust out of £800,000
A former senior IT manager has admitted to defrauding an NHS trust out of more than £800,000 and will face sentencing later this month.
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ICS asks private providers for £10,000 contributions
An integrated care system is asking independent providers on its patch to pay a substantial annual fee to fund system ‘running costs’, HSJ has learned.
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Government scraps free emergency parking for NHS staff
Ministers are set to scrap a free emergency parking pass issued to NHS and care staff last year once lockdown restrictions end next month, updated guidance reveals.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: Beefing up critical care and the issues system leaders must consider
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman
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NHS England in talks over permanent boost to critical care capacity
High-level discussions have started about a substantial permanent increase to the NHS’ critical care capacity, HSJ has learned.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: The (incomplete) picture of eating disorder performance
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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News
Leaked report reveals trust failings over ‘racially aggravated attack’
A hospital trust’s management has apologised, after being heavily criticised by an independent review for ‘letting down’ a staff member who reported suffering a racially aggravated attack while on duty.
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HSJ Interactive
Ensuring safe vascular access
Specialised teams can help to better organise vascular access and enhance patient safety, an HSJ roundtable heard
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Racial ‘disparity ratios’ created for each trust to root out ‘racist practice’ in NHS systems
‘Disparity ratios’ highlighting how staff with minority ethnic backgrounds are represented at different levels in each trust have been created by the national workforce race equality standard programme to help tackle ‘racist practice’ in the NHS.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Waiting for The People’s Dominic
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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News
Tory MP: No business in the world would treat their staff like the NHS
The NHS must significantly improve its training offer to staff, or risk losing many of them according to two Conservative MPs who are also clinicians.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: When safety warnings go unheeded
HSJ revealed in an investigation this week that serious concerns were raised by patients at a mental health hospital for children in the years before it was rated ‘inadequate’ by the national regulator in March 2021.
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Hospital chief to retire after nearly 20 years in post
A long-serving chief executive has announced his retirement after almost two decades in the job.
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Quarantine for overseas doctors risks ‘devastating impact’ on staffing
Ministers should exempt doctors from ‘red-listed’ countries from paying ‘prohibitive’ hotel quarantine charges or risk a ‘devastating impact’ on the NHS, the British Medical Association has said.
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HSJ Local
Trust ordered to pay £20,000 in case where there were ‘significant issues’ with CEO’s evidence
A major acute trust has been ordered to pay £20,000 in costs amid a long-running employment dispute with a whistleblower.
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HSJ Local
ICS leaders quit, claiming job ‘not what we signed up for’
The relatively newly appointed leaders of a large integrated care system have announced they are stepping down, saying the task has become “significantly different from the one we were appointed to”.
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News
Ex-teaching trust CEO joins NHS property quango
A former teaching trust CEO who quit amid financial turmoil, plus a recently departed acute chair, have become directors at NHS Property Services.