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Commitment to our community

By Liz Wells 24 February 2025

Deputy chief people officer, Sarah Margetts, shares how North Bristol Trust’s Commitment to Our Community programme drives innovative recruitment and retention

UNITE

Infectious disease workers to strike over working conditions

By Lee Peart 24 February 2025

Five days of strike action is being launched by infection control workers at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital later this month.

BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST

Trust taking 'racist, homophobic, or misogynistic' allegations 'very seriously'

By Lee Peart 24 February 2025

Barts Health NHS Trust has said it is taking allegations of racist, homophobic, or misogynistic behaviour ‘very seriously' following an external investigation.

NHS SBS

NHS fire and safety risk procurement solution goes live

By Lee Peart 24 February 2025

A procurement solution to tackle fire and safety risks in NHS buildings has gone live.

WAITING LIST

Three in four people fear being stuck on hospital trolley, poll reveals

By Lee Peart 24 February 2025

Three in four people fear being stuck on a trolley in a hospital corridor, a poll has found.

TECHNOLOGY

NHS trust group joins European network for responsible use of AI in healthcare

By Liz Wells 21 February 2025

The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Trust Group has become the first in England to join European TRAIN – the Trustworthy and Responsible...

TECHNOLOGY

Hampshire trust cuts waiting list for cataract surgeries with AI

By Liz Wells 21 February 2025

NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight has reduced average waiting times for low complexity cataract surgery from 35 weeks to 10 weeks or less thanks to an AI telephone assistant.

UK GOVERNMENT

Government asks ICBs to offer 700,000 extra urgent dental appointments

By Liz Wells 21 February 2025

NHS England has written to ICBs across the country, directing each to provide thousands of urgent appointments over the next year.

NUFFIELD TRUST

Widening gulf in job satisfaction between youngest and oldest NHS staff

By Liz Wells 20 February 2025

Early careers clinical staff in the NHS have become more stressed and unhappy over the past decade, with over half of young workers now made ill through workplace stress, new analysis reveals.

EPILEPSY

NHS offers 'new hope' for children with severe epilepsy

By Liz Wells 20 February 2025

Hundreds of children with severe epilepsy will be able to benefit from a groundbreaking new treatment on the NHS that could significantly reduce their seizures.