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Distraction stifles progress

07 April 2025

Now is the time to double down on equity and inclusion in health, says Professor Shivani Sharma, deputy pro-vice chancellor at Aston University’s College of Business and Social Sciences

SIR JIM MACKEY

Sir Jim Mackey reveals NHS and ICB cost-cutting plans

By Lee Peart 02 April 2025

Newly installed NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey has set out plans to cut costs at NHS trusts and ICBs.

WORKFORCE

Liverpool lab workers balloted for strikes over patient safety fears

By Liz Wells 02 April 2025

Unite members working at the microbiology department at Liverpool Clinical Laboratories, run by NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, are being balloted for strikes over 'patient safety fears'.

SHREWSBURY AND TELFORD HOSPITAL NHS TRUST

Trust signs Sexual Safety Charter

By Liz Wells 02 April 2025

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has pledged its commitment to the NHS Sexual Safety Charter.

PAY

Delays to health workers' pay rise 'causing huge problems' for NHS

By Liz Wells 01 April 2025

Trade unions and organisations representing health workers have hit out after the government failed to deliver this year’s pay award on time.

WORKFORCE

Resident doctors reach agreement on additional hours worked and safe working practices

By Liz Wells 01 April 2025

Resident doctors in England have agreed reforms to additional hours worked and safe working practices in NHS hospitals, bringing to an end a dispute with Government over lack of progress with this ...

NHS ENGLAND

Pritchard marks last day as head of NHS England

By Liz Wells 31 March 2025

Amanda Pritchard steps down as chief executive of NHS England today (31 March).

NHS SUFFOLK AND NORTH EAST ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

Suffolk and North East Essex ICB confirms job cuts

By Liz Wells 31 March 2025

Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board (SNEE ICB) is to reduce its workforce by 468 across West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust (ESNEFT).

WORKFORCE

Real Living Wage reaches health and social care milestone

By Liz Wells 27 March 2025

There are now more than 1,000 health and social care employers across the UK who are committed to paying their workers the real Living Wage.

AMBULANCE SERVICE

Variation in paramedic ECG education and training revealed

By Liz Wells 27 March 2025

There needs to be more consistency in the way paramedics are educated and trained to carry out and interpret electrocardiograms (ECGs) of patients who could be critically ill, a new report highlights.