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Bristol trust to axe hundreds of jobs

By Liz Wells 15 April 2025

North Bristol NHS Trust, which runs Southmead Hospital, will reduce its staff by 211 posts to help achieve £40m of savings in 2025/26.

DIVERSITY

NHS trusts 'fast-track ethnic minorities' to top jobs

By Liz Wells 15 April 2025

NHS trusts are 'fast-tracking ethnic minorities' to management positions and onto boards to meet diversity quotas, reports suggest.

EAST AND NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE TEACHING NHS TRUST

Hertfordshire trust awarded teaching status

By Liz Wells 14 April 2025

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has since been awarded teaching status and is now recognised as a teaching trust.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF MIDWIVES

TUC urged to tackle racial discrimination and inequalities in the NHS

By Liz Wells 14 April 2025

The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has urged the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to support its call to eradicate systemic racism faced by global majority NHS staff.

PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES

Scapegoating physician associates is 'dangerous distraction' for NHS

By Liz Wells 11 April 2025

The 'toxic' debate around physician associates threatens to destabilise an already overstretched NHS, says Unison.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Gloucestershire NHS staff escalate strike action in pay dispute

By Liz Wells 11 April 2025

Phlebotomists at Gloucestershire Royal and Cheltenham General hospitals have escalated strike action in a long-running dispute over pay and grading.

WORKFORCE

Government rejects calls for separate nurse pay spine

By Liz Wells 10 April 2025

The Government has revealed that it will not pursue a separate pay spine for NHS nursing staff following consultation.

WORKFORCE

Resident doctors in England re-enter pay dispute

By Liz Wells 10 April 2025

Resident doctors in England have re-entered a pay dispute with the Government, citing key provisions of last year’s agreements that have not been upheld.

WORKFORCE

Research to tackle challenges facing NHS and care workforce

By Liz Wells 09 April 2025

NIHR is to invest £24m into five Workforce Research Partnerships (WRPs) that will develop and test innovations to improve the quality of health and social care services by improving staff retention...

SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT

Scottish government makes two-year pay offer to Agenda for Change staff

By Liz Wells 08 April 2025

Nurses, midwives and other healthcare staff across Scotland have been offered a pay increase of 8% over two years, Scotland's health secretary Neil Gray has announced.