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• Exclusive: Trust orders external review into medical training ‘concerns’

  • 9 Jan 2025

  University Hospitals Birmingham has ordered an independent review into a major international medical training programme, after concerns the scheme may be routinely underpaying overseas doctors.

• Trusts to foot bill for new ‘customer service’ training

  • 8 Jan 2025

  New compulsory customer service training to help non-clinical staff better advise elective patients and “handle difficult conversations with compassion” will be paid for from providers’ existing budgets, HSJ understands.

• Trust rapped for ‘irregular’ £116k payment to outgoing CEO

  • 8 Jan 2025

  An NHS trust has been reprimanded by the public spending watchdog after it paid its departing chief executive more than £100,000 without prior Treasury sign-off.

• National tech director to step down

  • 7 Jan 2025

  A national tech chief is set to step down in the spring after less than two years in the role.

• ICB chairs made dames in New Year Honours

  • 31 Dec 2024

  Two integrated care board chairs, one a former health secretary and the other a leading antiracism campaigner, have been made Dames in the 2025 New Year Honours.

• ICB chief goes full-time at NHS England

  • 19 Dec 2024

  The chief executive of an integrated care system is moving to work for NHS England full time, for an unspecified period.

• New chair for integrated trust

  • 19 Dec 2024

  A trust providing hospital and community services has appointed a new chair.

• NHSE deputy to join ICB

  • 19 Dec 2024

  One of NHS England’s national finance team is leaving to join an integrated care board.

• Cost-of-living crisis poses ‘high risk’ to NHS pension scheme

  • 18 Dec 2024

  The cost-of-living crisis is creating a “high risk” to the NHS Pension Scheme, government advisers have warned.

• Mental health nurse appointed trust CEO

  • 16 Dec 2024

  A trust has appointed a mental health nurse as its permanent chief executive, after he held the post in an interim capacity for over a year.

• Former NHSE director to chair three trusts

  • 12 Dec 2024

  The chair of an integrated care board in the south west is set to step down and take on a similar role at two trusts in a neighbouring system.

• Pay deal could extend waiting list and ‘make day job even harder’, says NHSE

  • 11 Dec 2024

  A pay rise of more than the 2.8 per cent budgeted for next year would slow down the NHS’s waiting list recovery, and make “the day-to-day job of NHS staff even harder”, NHS England has claimed.

• ICB names third chair in eight months

  • 10 Dec 2024

  An integrated care board has appointed its third temporary chair since April, blaming the general election for the high turnover.

• Ex-brewery boss to chair hospital

  • 6 Dec 2024

  A trust with one of England’s largest cost-improvement programmes has appointed a new interim chair and interim finance director.

• Discrimination against gay and trans staff is undermining productivity, claims CEO

  • 5 Dec 2024

  Tackling increased discrimination faced by gay and trans staff must be a priority for the NHS if it wants to maximise workforce productivity, according to the CEO of one of the service’s largest providers.

• Former nurse appointed as interim CEO

  • 3 Dec 2024

  A trust whose chief executive is retiring after 40 years in the NHS has appointed an interim successor.

• ICB chief to retire to make way for ‘new era’

  • 29 Nov 2024

  The chief executive of one of England’s largest health systems has announced his retirement.

• Letby trust director regrets not telling police sooner

  • 29 Nov 2024

  A medical director at the trust where Lucy Letby worked has admitted “we got things wrong” and regrets not informing the police sooner, an inquiry has been told.

• ‘I acted in good faith’ says Letby trust CEO

  • 28 Nov 2024

  A former trust chief executive at the centre of the Lucy Letby scandal has defended his actions, stating both he and other executives were “acting in good faith”.

• Chair to leave regulator after ‘intensely challenging’ term

  • 27 Nov 2024

  The chair of the Care Quality Commission is to leave the organisation next spring, having admitted the past three years have “at times been intensely challenging”.