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  • Joint CEO for trusts with £2bn turnover

    • 30 Oct 2023

    A joint chief executive has been appointed across three acute trusts in the East Midlands in the next stage of their “formal collaboration”.

  • Revealed: Four trusts report quarter of all ‘critical incidents’

    • 25 Oct 2023

    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.

  • Confirm there is no plan to ‘replace doctors’, NHSE told

    • 25 Oct 2023

    The medical regulator has told NHS England to ‘directly tackle’ a perception there is a plan to replace doctors with physician associates amid an ‘intense’ debate about their future.

  • NHSE defends equality roles against Barclay intervention

    • 20 Oct 2023

    NHS England’s chair has defended the need for ‘specialist skills to address equality, diversity and inclusion’, after Steve Barclay told local NHS organisations to stop recruiting dedicated EDI roles.

  • Senior managers’ pay rise delayed until at least November

    • 20 Oct 2023

    Senior managers will not get their 5 per cent pay uplift for 2023-24 until at least November, with unions describing a slow sign-off process as “making a mountain out of a molehill”.

  • The Ward Round: Not just another royal college row

    • 19 Oct 2023

    Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.

  • ‘Grossly unfair’ mileage rate for NHS staff being reviewed

    • 19 Oct 2023

    Ministers are considering overhauling the national framework of the NHS mileage mechanism for staff, which unions have criticised as ‘hopelessly out of date’ and ‘grossly unfair’.

  • Be careful of celebrating staff as ‘heroes’, NHSE advises trusts

    • 16 Oct 2023

    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.

  • Australian CEO returns to lead challenged trust

    • 13 Oct 2023

    Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed former Medway FT boss Lesley Dwyer as chief executive, HSJ has learned.

  • Trust appoints group chief executive

    • 13 Oct 2023

    Royal Free London Foundation Trust has confirmed Peter Landstrom as its substantive group chief executive.

  • 40-year CEO chooses not to ‘keep going forever’

    • 12 Oct 2023

    A group CEO who is one of the longest-serving leaders in the NHS is retiring after four decades as a chief executive.

  • ‘Insular’ trust has to rebuild ‘hope’ and relationships, says turnaround CEO

    • 10 Oct 2023

    The chief executive of a major acute trust has said performance problems caused it to ‘look inwards’ and described how it has been working to ‘build back relationships’ and give ‘hope’ to staff.

  • Agency profits growing due to ‘acute shortage of staff’

    • 10 Oct 2023

    Two companies supplying staff to the NHS saw large growth in income and profits last year, annual accounts reveal.

  • NHS Providers boss: Tackle consultant strikes to unlock progress on juniors

    • 9 Oct 2023

    Ministers should focus on resolving the consultants’ pay dispute first, and use an agreement to help facilitate a deal with the junior doctors, NHS Providers’ boss Julian Hartley has told HSJ.

  • The Ward Round: In search of bold policy

    • 5 Oct 2023

    Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.

  • Ambulance sector vows to improve sexual safety

    • 5 Oct 2023

    The ambulance sector has signed up to a consensus statement in a bid to tackle misogyny and improve sexual safety for its staff and patients.

  • ICS salaries face eight-month wait for ministerial sign-off

    • 5 Oct 2023

    Ministers took nearly four times as long to sign off integrated care board directors’ appointments as those of NHS trusts last year, HSJ has found.

  • Trust appoints fifth CEO in as many years

    • 4 Oct 2023

    Embattled Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has appointed a new interim chief executive just a week after incumbent Stuart Richardson stood down.

  • Experienced chief moves to fourth trust

    • 4 Oct 2023

    An experienced chief executive who ran his system’s “gold command” covid-19 response has been named as the new boss of a teaching trust whose previous leader has moved to Gibraltar.

  • Strikes now endangering heart and cancer patients, NHSE warns BMA

    • 4 Oct 2023

    The impact of successive doctors’ strikes is now ‘causing significant disruption and risk to patients’, including to those needing urgent heart and cancer treatment, NHS England leaders have told the BMA in their strongest warnings yet.