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SafeZone App helps keep NHS colleagues safe

By Lee Peart 09 December 2024

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) has become the first acute trust to sign up to a new app designed to keep colleagues safe.

WORKFORCE PLAN

Revised NHS Workforce Plan to focus on community shift

By Lee Peart 09 December 2024

A revised NHS Workforce Plan will be published in summer 2025 to support a shift from hospital to community care.

WORKFORCE

Scotland's speciality and associate doctors receive pay offer

By Liz Wells 05 December 2024

Speciality and Associate Specialist (SAS) doctors across Scotland have been offered a 6% pay rise to ensure their salaries stay competitive with other parts of the UK.

NATIONAL LIVING WAGE

Living Wage Foundation urges Integrated Care Systems to become recognised

By Liz Wells 05 December 2024

The Living Wage Foundation is calling on Integrated Care Systems across the UK to help make sure the health and social care sector has fair pay and better working conditions by becoming a Living Wa...

WORKFORCE

London pathology lab staff to strike over 'unsafe' reorganisation

By Liz Wells 04 December 2024

Staff at pathology supplier Synnovis have voted to strike for five days in December, Unite has revealed.

WORKFORCE

Black Country selects new interim chair

By Liz Wells 04 December 2024

The Assembly of Governors at Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHFT) has appointed Philip Gayle as its new interim chair.

UNITE

Yorkshire Ambulance workers secure new pay deal

By Liz Wells 04 December 2024

Patient liaison workers employed by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) have secured a pay increase.

WORKFORCE

Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB selects new chief medical officer

By Liz Wells 02 December 2024

Dr Ben Riley has been appointed as chief medical officer of NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB.

SOCIAL CARE

Plummeting visa numbers leave social care sector 'in crisis'

By Liz Wells 02 December 2024

Care England is ‘gravely concerned’ by new figures showing a 65% drop in health and care worker visa grants over the past year.

WORKFORCE

International nurse recruitment slows in UK

By Liz Wells 02 December 2024

The register of all nursing and midwifery professionals who can practise in the UK has reached a record 841,367, but a pillar of recent growth – international recruitment – has slowed in pace, new ...