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Leeds trust chief to retire after 30 years

By Liz Wells 24 July 2025

Professor Phil Wood, chief executive of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, is to retire from the role after more than 30 years’ service with the NHS.

INDUSTRIAL ACTION

Streeting tells trust chiefs 'we have your backs' ahead of strikes

By Liz Wells 24 July 2025

The government has hospital leaders' backs 'if they need to make decisions on staffing', health secretary Wes Streeting has told hospital leaders.

AGENDA FOR CHANGE

Unison boss supports striking phlebotomists

By Liz Wells 23 July 2025

Striking phlebotomists in Gloucestershire have been joined on the picket line by Unison general secretary Christina McAnea as they fight for fair pay.

RECRUITMENT

ICB becomes demonstrator for Widening Access programme

By Liz Wells 23 July 2025

Humber and North Yorkshire ICB has been selected as a demonstrator site for a major national NHS recruitment drive.

INDUSTRIAL ACTION

Public support for resident doctors falls as trusts brace themselves for strikes

By Liz Wells 23 July 2025

Public support for the imminent resident doctors' strikes is declining, new research reveals.

SOCIAL CARE

Social care and NHS under threat from overseas worker ban, says care boss

By Lee Peart 23 July 2025

A Welsh care home boss has invited First Minister Eluned Morgan to come and see the threat to social care services and the NHS caused by the ban on overseas care workers.

INDUSTRIAL ACTION

BREAKING NEWS: Resident doctors strike to go ahead as Streeting fails to 'make significant offer'

By Liz Wells 22 July 2025

Resident doctors in England have confirmed they will be going ahead with industrial action this week, after determining health secretary Wes Streeting’s letter to the BMA's Resident Doctors Committ...

PEOPLE MOVES

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals selects new chair

By Liz Wells 22 July 2025

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Mahmud Nawaz as its new chair.

NHS professionals to be trained on ME and chronic fatigue syndrome

By Liz Wells 22 July 2025

NHS healthcare professionals in England are to receive new training to be better able to support patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and ME.

NHS ENGLAND

BMA warns NHS England that its strike plans risk patient safety

By Liz Wells 22 July 2025

The BMA is warning NHS England that its change in approach to planning for this week’s resident doctors strikes will ‘risk patient safety’ for those seeking routine and emergency treatment.