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Fit for the future: Reforming the NHS workforce

24 November 2025

This is a critical period for the NHS and the workforce plan must serve to engage and motivate what is a vast and dispersed staff base, write Jog Hundle and Rebecca Pallot, employment partners at U...

RECRUITMENT

Nursing cadets explore future healthcare careers

By Liz Wells 24 November 2025

The King’s Nursing Cadet Programme runs at selected locations across the UK

BMJ GROUP

Thousands of NHS doctors trapped in 'insecure gig economy' contracts

By Liz Wells 21 November 2025

Thousands of locally employed doctors (LEDs) – many of them international graduates and from ethnic minority backgrounds – are trapped on insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career p...

GMC

UK health services risk 'huge holes' if internationally qualified doctors quit

By Liz Wells 21 November 2025

UK health services could be left with ‘huge holes’ if a trend for internationally qualified doctors to leave the workforce gathers pace, a new report reveals.

WORKFORCE

Kent trusts to form county's first hospital group

By Lee Peart 21 November 2025

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust and Medway NHS Foundation Trust are forming Kent’s first hospital group.

RESIDENT DOCTORS

BMA urges Streeting to 'put aside hostile rhetoric' and secure future jobs and pay

By Liz Wells 20 November 2025

The BMA is calling on health secretary Wes Streeting to put aside ‘hostile rhetoric’ and sit down with the union to secure future jobs and pay.

PAY DEALS

Over 500 workers at St Helier and Epsom hospitals secure pay and conditions deal

By Liz Wells 20 November 2025

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust has offered more than 500 cleaners, caterers, porters and patient transport workers a new pay and conditions deal.

WORKFORCE

Warning notice issued over surgical ward staffing levels

By Lee Peart 18 November 2025

A warning notice has been issued by the CQC following an inspection of surgical services at Salford Royal Hospital.

WORKFORCE

Gloucestershire phlebotomists mark longest-running strike of NHS workers

By Liz Wells 17 November 2025

Striking phlebotomists in Gloucestershire have been joined by senior union leaders and supporters to mark the longest-ever walkout by NHS employees, as they mark their 236th day of industrial action.

WORKFORCE