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Trust targets 150 job cuts as part of cost improvement drive

By Lee Peart 07 October 2025

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (RCHT) is proposing to 150 around job cuts to its admin workforce from just over 600 to around 450 as part of a national requirement to reduce corporate service s...

WORKFORCE

First-year doctors in England support strike action over jobs

By Liz Wells 07 October 2025

First-year resident doctors in England have voted ‘resoundingly’ for strike action over job security.

WORKFORCE

Surrey trusts select group director of transformation and digital

By Liz Wells 07 October 2025

Ruth Colburn Jackson has been appointed group director of transformation and digital across Royal Surrey and Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trusts.

MHRA

UK clinical trial approval times twice as fast with AI and reforms

By Liz Wells 07 October 2025

The time it takes to approve clinical trials in the UK has been cut by more than half – from an average of 91 days to just 41 days – after major reforms and the introduction of digital platforms at...

PRIMARY CARE

NHS booking system problem causes Covid jab chaos

By Lee Peart 07 October 2025

Problems with the NHS website booking system have led to large numbers of people ineligible people arriving for Covid vaccinations at pharmacies.

Hospital rated good for medical care but breaches found in emergency care

By Lee Peart 07 October 2025

Queen Alexandra Hospital has been rated good for medical care but requires improvement for urgent and emergency care.

DIGITAL

Welsh health board helps BSL signers communicate with healthcare providers

By Liz Wells 06 October 2025

Powys Teaching Health Board is using a free app to help BSL signers to communicate with their healthcare providers.

ROBOTS

Shrewsbury and Telford trust adds more robot-assisted surgery

By Liz Wells 06 October 2025

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has extended its robotic-assisted surgery offering to include upper gastrointestinal (UGI) surgery.

HEALTH INNOVATION MANCHESTER

Health Innovation Network appoints new executive chair

By Liz Wells 06 October 2025

Professor Ben Bridgewater has been appointed as the new executive chair of the Health Innovation Network, representing England’s 15 regional health innovation networks.

ESTATES

ICB awards contract for non-emergency patient transport services

By Lee Peart 06 October 2025

NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB has awarded its new contract for non-emergency patient transport services (NEPTS) to Health Transportation Group (HTG).