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GP practice manager 'failed to pay' over £75,000 into staff pensions

By Liz Wells 15 April 2025

A GP practice manager who failed to pay more than £75,000 into the pension funds of staff at her surgery is facing seven years of bankruptcy restrictions. 

JOB LOSSES

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.

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Trust to exit prison health contracts

By Lee Peart 15 April 2025

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) has served notice on its delivery of healthcare contracts for seven prisons and an immigration centre.

AMBULANCE

NHSE to scrap 999 calls rerouting system

By Lee Peart 15 April 2025

A system which reroutes emergency calls during busy periods is being dropped by NHSE.

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.

INTEGRATED CARE

NHS contract proposals pledge 'greater control' for ICBs

By Lee Peart 15 April 2025

New proposals by NHSE pledge to give ICBs greater control over NHS contract activity.

PREVENTION

Charities call for UK Government to support WHO resolution on kidney disease

By Liz Wells 14 April 2025

Kidney charities are calling on the UK Government to support a World Health Organisation (WHO) resolution on kidney disease.

Trust receives over £2m to install solar panels

By Lee Peart 14 April 2025

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has received over £2m in funding to install 2,725 solar panels at over 11 sites.

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.

ESTATES

Critical infrastructure upgrade to provide £3m energy savings

By Lee Peart 14 April 2025

An update of critical infrastructure serving the University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is set to provide annual energy savings of around £3m.