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• Cutting hospital staff won’t help productivity, says ICB chief

  • 17 Sep 2024

  The leader of an integrated care board has dismissed a “narrative” that the NHS can become more productive by cutting hospital staff numbers.

• Doctors vote to end historic pay dispute

  • 17 Sep 2024

  Junior doctors have voted to accept the government’s latest pay offer – bringing to an end a bitter dispute which lasted nearly two years and saw 44 days of strikes.

• Revealed: ICBs which cut staff by a fifth in 12 months

  • 16 Sep 2024

  Several integrated care boards have cut their staffing by up to a fifth in a single year – after being asked to reduce management costs – but significant variation exists, HSJ analysis shows.

• Trust considers tough line on promoting minority staff

  • 12 Sep 2024

  An ambulance trust may require managers to justify to its CEO each time they promote someone else ahead of a colleague with a minority ethnic background to a senior role.

• National bodies ‘failed to help staff with rationing care during covid’

  • 11 Sep 2024

  Six in 10 healthcare professionals said they lacked support from national bodies like NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care when making decisions about which patients to prioritise for higher-intensity care during the pandemic, according to research.

• Council boss made senior DHSC mandarin

  • 10 Sep 2024

  A city council chief executive who once sought to run NHS England has been appointed as the second permanent secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care.

• Doctor worked in NHS for six months despite sexual harassment allegations

  • 10 Sep 2024

  A trust is reviewing its procedures after employing a senior surgeon as a locum registrar without knowing he had been sacked from a previous role over sexual harassment allegations.

• Trust chair withdraws before starting role

  • 10 Sep 2024

  A lay member of the embattled Nursing Midwifery Council, who had been appointed by NHS England to chair a mental health trust, has decided not to take up the new role, HSJ has learned.

• Former NHSE director to chair cash-strapped ICB

  • 9 Sep 2024

  A former NHS England director who has also led adult social care for a council has been appointed chair of an integrated care board.

• Turbulent ICB appoints first permanent CEO in two years

  • 6 Sep 2024

  Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board has appointed its first substantive CEO in two years.

• Exclusive: Darzi will highlight underinvestment in NHS managers

  • 6 Sep 2024

  The imminent review of NHS performance by Lord Ara Darzi will highlight the need to invest more in NHS management and leadership, HSJ understands.

• Black bank staff six times more likely to be disciplined

  • 5 Sep 2024

  Black British bank workers are nearly six times more likely to enter a formal disciplinary, compared to their white colleagues, NHS England analysis has found.

• Integrated care trust to be axed within weeks

  • 4 Sep 2024

  A first-of-its-kind integrated care trust – set up as part of NHS England’s “new care model” reforms – is set to be legally dissolved within weeks, with its current chief executive moving to an interim role at a nearby provider.

• NHS England names new regional director

  • 4 Sep 2024

  NHS England has appointed a long-serving trust chief executive as its new regional director for the North West, it confirmed today.

• Trust hired ‘untrained strike-breakers who put patients at risk’, union claims

  • 3 Sep 2024

  A trust has been accused of putting patients at risk by bringing in “untrained strike-breakers” from hundreds of miles away and paying for their hotel accommodation to “disrupt” a week-long walkout by facilities management staff.

• Trust investigating offensive comments by senior manager

  • 29 Aug 2024

  A trust is investigating after videos emerged showing one of its senior managers making apparently racist and sexist remarks with colleagues on a work call

• Extra pay rise for band 8s and 9s confirmed

  • 29 Aug 2024

  Many band 8 and 9 staff will receive an additional pay rise this November, after pay framework changes were signed off by unions and employers.

• COO to leave after a year at challenged trust

  • 28 Aug 2024

  The chief operating officer of one of England’s most challenged trusts is to leave his job after a year because the commute is too much for him.

• Ex-management consultant to chair ICB

  • 28 Aug 2024

  An integrated care board has appointed a former management consultant as its new chair

• Hospital trusts ditch shared chair role

  • 23 Aug 2024

  Two large hospital trusts have dropped their shared chair arrangement.