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  • NHSE imposes ‘return to office’ policy

    • 29 Jan 2024

    Full-time NHS England staff will be required to work at least two days in the office from April, it has told them, despite union concerns.

  • Trusts fail to appoint group CEO

    • 26 Jan 2024

    Two acute trusts in the Midlands have failed to fill their group CEO role despite interviewing 12 applicants, HSJ has learned.

  • NHSE spent £75m reducing its workforce in 2022-23

    • 26 Jan 2024

    NHS England agreed 951 voluntary redundancies or early retirements in 2022-23 at the cost of around £75m, as it began dramatically reducing the size of the organisation, its annual accounts show.

  • Consultants narrowly reject pay offer

    • 25 Jan 2024

    Consultant doctors have narrowly rejected the pay offer from government in a ballot.

  • Exclusive: DHSC caught on ‘back foot’ by ‘confused’ visa clampdown

    • 24 Jan 2024

    Department of Health and Social Care officials described the announcement of a visa clampdown for health and care workers as “confused at best” and said they were pushing the Home Office to clarify its position, internal emails show.

  • Trust appoints new chair from ICB

    • 23 Jan 2024

    An acute trust in the West Midlands has appointed a new chair from its neighbouring integrated care board.

  • Regional managers ‘scapegoated’ in ‘shambolic’ handling of racism report

    • 22 Jan 2024

    An NHS agency refused to publicly apologise to two managers, despite widespread doubts over the accuracy of a published report that accused them of presiding over “systemic racism”.

  • Managers face axe at under-pressure trust

    • 18 Jan 2024

    A trust grappling with an “inadequate” rating at its high-profile high secure hospital has begun a major management restructure expected to include redundancies, HSJ has learned.

  • Five trust CEOs were paid more than £300,000 last year

    • 18 Jan 2024

    Several trust chief executives were paid more than £300,000 in 2022-23, including adjustments for previous underpayments, pay in lieu of pension contributions, and redundancy packages.

  • New role for trust chief of 25 years

    • 16 Jan 2024

    A veteran chief executive has been appointed as permanent head of an ambulance trust.

  • NHSE announces eight new directors

    • 10 Jan 2024

    NHS England has announced 19 national clinical director appointments, eight of whom are new to the role, including for stroke and maternity services.

  • Former national director to chair two ICBs

    • 9 Jan 2024

    A long-serving hospital leader and former NHS Improvement director will become the first to chair two neighbouring integrated care boards.

  • Managers fear ‘unfair’ professional regulation

    • 9 Jan 2024

    More NHS managers support regulation of their roles than oppose it, despite many fearing its implementation will be unfair or disproportionate, a survey suggests.

  • Doctors who worked during strike thanked by NHSE chief

    • 8 Jan 2024

    Amanda Pritchard has thanked junior doctors who “returned to work to ensure minimum levels of cover” during last week’s strike, “whether or not formal patient safety mitigations were granted” by their union, along with others who helped “keep patients safe”.

  • NHSE to catalogue ‘harm and near misses’ where BMA rejects derogations

    • 4 Jan 2024

    The NHS will start recording harm caused to patients during strike action where exemptions have been rejected by the British Medical Association – amid an escalating row between the union and NHS England.

  • Government seeks £150k lead for '40 new hospitals' programme

    • 4 Jan 2024

    The government is advertising for a top civil servant to permanently lead its “new hospitals” building programme, leaving it unclear whether the current director will remain in place.

  • NHSE trying to ‘undermine’ doctors strike, claims BMA

    • 4 Jan 2024

    NHS England has been accused of bowing to political pressure and trying to “undermine” the junior doctors strike.

  • Surgeon CEO takes on interim role leading second trust

    • 3 Jan 2024

    The CEO of a children’s hospital trust has taken an interim role leading a general acute provider in the same system, whose substantive chief is “undertaking an assignment with NHS London on provider collaboratives”.

  • HSJ’s 10 most-read workforce stories of 2023

    • 28 Dec 2023

    As we prepare to part ways with 2023, we’ve taken a look back at the most-read workforce stories of the year.

  • ICB chair quits to lead two acute trusts

    • 20 Dec 2023

    An integrated care board chair is to step down for a permanent role leading two trusts.