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  • The Ward Round: Making the best of the overseas recruitment surge

    • 1 Jun 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.

  • NHSE expands overseas recruitment drive

    • 30 May 2023

    NHS England has expanded its drive to increase overseas recruitment, introducing funding for trusts to hire more types of health professionals from abroad.

  • NHSE officer steps down to focus on board roles

    • 26 May 2023

    England’s chief dental officer is leaving her national post after eight years in part to focus on several non-executive board roles, NHS England has announced.

  • Thousands excluded from NHS pay rise in ‘two tier system’

    • 26 May 2023

    Tens of thousands of outsourced staff are at risk of missing out on part of the NHS pay deal agreed with government, HSJ has learned.

  • Group CEO set to lead fourth trust

    • 25 May 2023

    A chief executive who already leads three trusts looks set to also take the helm at a struggling neighbouring provider, HSJ has learned.

  • Fear of mass staff exit stoked by record rise in pension claims

    • 23 May 2023

    The number of NHS staff claiming retirement benefits has reached its highest level in nearly a decade, figures seen by HSJ have revealed.

  • Three day junior doctor strike announced for June

    • 22 May 2023

    Junior doctors will stage a second three day walk out in the middle of next month.

  • Exclusive: Trust execs accused of creating a ‘cult of the individual’

    • 22 May 2023

    Regulators are probing a series of whistleblowing claims about the leadership culture of a trust which is rated ‘outstanding’ for its management, HSJ has learned.

  • New acute trust and ambulance CEOs as region shakes up leadership

    • 19 May 2023

    One of the NHS’s most pressurised regions has announced a shake up of its provider leadership, creating a new acute trust group in the process.

  • Chief midwifery officer named

    • 19 May 2023

    Kate Brintworth has been appointed the new head of midwifery in England.

  • The Ward Round: Nurses divided

    • 18 May 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.

  • Bullying culture trust seeks ‘fair and supportive’ CEO

    • 17 May 2023

    A struggling trust has started recruitment for its new substantive chief executive, after a review found its leadership had become ‘overzealous and coercive’.

  • CEO of struggling ICS to retire

    • 17 May 2023

    The chief executive of one of England’s most challenged integrated care systems has announced her retirement.

  • Patient aggression up by a fifth despite trust’s interventions

    • 16 May 2023

    A hospital trust, which has already implemented a series of safety measures to protect employees, has reported a 17 per cent rise in incidents of abuse against staff by patients and the public in the last year.

  • Director made trust CEO after 17 years on board

    • 12 May 2023

    A Yorkshire acute trust has confirmed its CEO will take on the role permanently after holding the post as an interim for more than a year.

  • ‘Mac the Knife’ to retire after nearly 50 years in health service

    • 11 May 2023

    An integrated care board chief executive who has spent nearly five decades working in the health service has announced his retirement.

  • Trust CEO named as interim ICB chief

    • 10 May 2023

    Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board has appointed its third chief executive, and second interim, since it was established last July.

  • Finance chief who ‘eradicated trust’s deficit’ is made CEO

    • 10 May 2023

    A trust has appointed a chief executive whose track record as finance director includes work towards eliminating its underlying deficit.

  • Regulator clears trust to bring back junior doctors

    • 10 May 2023

    Up to 10 junior doctor posts will be reinstated at a small district general hospital after regulators agreed it had improved its learning environment.

  • CEO who quit ahead of damning CQC report given new role at trust-hosted agency

    • 5 May 2023

    The former chief executive of a major trust who stepped down after a CQC inspection rated its leadership ‘inadequate’ has been employed as a director of an NHS audit agency hosted by the provider.