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University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust agrees pay deal for healthcare support workers

By Liz Wells 19 November 2024

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has agreed to give its healthcare support workers a pay rise and back pay following strike action.

WORKFORCE

Liverpool NHS workers strike for covid bonus

By Liz Wells 19 November 2024

More than 130 workers at Royal Liverpool Hospital have begun a two-week strike in a 'fight to get their missing covid bonus'.

WORKFORCE

Alder Hey appoints new chief executive

By Liz Wells 18 November 2024

John Grinnell has been appointed chief executive of Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool.

LONG COVID

Nursing staff and doctors with long Covid 'hung out to dry'

By Liz Wells 18 November 2024

Nursing staff and doctors with long Covid are still being denied access to vital financial support, two years after the government’s own scientific advisory body called for ministers to take action...

WORKFORCE

Swansea Bay hospital staff back strikes in row over pay

By Liz Wells 18 November 2024

Hundreds of healthcare support workers at hospitals in Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot have voted to strike over pay.

WORKFORCE

Southampton hospital porters to strike in 'bullying and toilet dignity' dispute

By Liz Wells 15 November 2024

Around 60 hospital porters employed at University Hospital Southampton will begin strike action later this month, after management ‘failed to act on the appalling levels of bullying and harassment ...

SECURITY

Security guard jailed after stealing from West Midlands hospital

By Liz Wells 15 November 2024

A man has been jailed for almost three years after he used a fake licence to work at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and commit theft.

COVENTRY UNIVERSITY

Coventry University gets go-ahead to increase healthcare apprenticeships

By Liz Wells 14 November 2024

Coventry University is to increase the number of its degree apprenticeships in health and care after being awarded £782,900 in funding.

WORKFORCE

Flavell to leave Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

By Liz Wells 14 November 2024

Hayley Flavell, executive director of nursing at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, is leaving the trust at the end of November.

BMA SCOTLAND

Midlands trust reverses plan to cut overtime rates

By Liz Wells 14 November 2024

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has agreed to lift the changes it made to pre-existing pay rates for doctors who do extra work, above and beyond their contracted working week.