The case for capital funding to rebuild the NHS
This briefing highlights what trust leaders need from the comprehensive spending review, based on a survey of trust and foundation trust finance directors across all sectors. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - September 27, 2021 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Healthcare assistants band together over pay
Healthcare support staff are launching a campaign to demand fair pay for the work they do, in a move unveiled today at UNISON’s special health conference.
Maura McKenna, the vice chair of the union’s health service group executive, told delegates: “The Pay fair for patient care campaign can help branches to win pay justice and the respect, recognition and reward that this big group of workers deserve.”
Healthcare support staff – mostly referred to as healthcare assistants or HCAs – work as part of the NHS team to deliver quality patient care. Over the years, as roles have evolved and expanded, they have taken ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - September 21, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: Janey Starling Tags: Article News health pay fair for care Source Type: news
Sodexo agrees to pay NHS 3% rise at South Yorkshire trust
UNISON has today welcomed the news that private company Sodexo, working within the Doncaster & Bassetlaw hospital sites, has agreed to implement and honour the NHS 3% pay deal for 2021 for Sodexo staff that were TUPE transferred over to them from the Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in 2018.
UNISON area organiser Margaret Yemm said: “All of our UNISON members working in Sodexo have worked – and continue to work – extremely hard to provide an ongoing catering service to our patients and retail customers in Doncaster, even more so during the global COVID-19 outbreak and restrictions.
“Our ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - September 16, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News One Team2K Source Type: news
Blog: Why the Health and Care Bill is so important
By UNISON head of health Sara Gorton
UNISON was among the earliest and fiercest critics of the 2012 ‘Lansley’ Act, which extended the scope for privatisation of the NHS in England, and made NHS services subject to unwieldy competition and procurement regulations.
It also encouraged fragmentation and disrupted the service by creating and moving tens of thousands of people into a series of new ‘arms-length bodies’.
Since the 2012 Act, UNISON has lobbied for changes – not just to get us back to pre-2012 standing, but to reinstate the principles of collaboration, social value and integration as well as explicitly set...
Source: UNISON Health care news - September 15, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: Martin Cullen Tags: Article Blogs health Source Type: news
Sir James Mackey appointed as elective recovery adviser
Sir James Mackey, the chief executive of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, will spend two days a week supporting NHS England and NHS Improvement to find new ways to address the elective backlog. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - September 13, 2021 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
‘Significant unresolved issues’ at mental health trust years on from scandal
There are still “significant unresolved issues” at Southern Health Foundation Trust which has not “reached the standards expected”, a report has found, six years after its leadership was heavily criticised in relation to major care failings. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - September 10, 2021 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Former BBC executive to chair hospital trust
The former chief finance and chief operating officer for the BBC has been appointed chair of the Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - September 7, 2021 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Trust boards take next step towards merger despite governors’ objections
Two foundation trusts in the South East have taken the next steps towards a merger. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - August 6, 2021 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Trust boards take next step to merge despite governors’ objections
Two foundation trusts in the South East have taken the next steps towards a merger. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - August 6, 2021 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Approval given to use Coronil as supporting measure in Covid management: MoS Health
Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar, in a written reply, said the Interdisciplinary Technical Review Committee (ITRC) setup by the AYUSH ministry reviewed the application submitted by the Patanjali Research Foundation Trust for "updating the AYUSH license for Divya Coronil tablet " from 'immunity booster' to 'medicine for COVID-19'. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - July 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Covid UK: Medics in hotspots of South Tyneside and Sunderland are asked to cancel holidays
Staff at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust - dealing with one of the highest infection rates in the country - are seeing hospital cases doubling week-on-week. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 16, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
FFP3 masks: study shows they significantly reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection, RCN
A study by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has found wearing FFP3 face masks can considerably reduce the risk of health care workers becoming infected with COVID-19. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - July 13, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Top trust chief to become full-time ICS leader
Rob Webster is to leave his post as chief executive of South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust to become the full-time lead of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate integrated care system. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - June 24, 2021 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Long COVID webinar, NHS Employers (published 23rd June 2021)
On the 22 June 2021, we hosted a webinar which provided information on how NHS organisations can best support colleagues with long COVID. In the webinar you can hear from:
the authors of the COVID-19 return to work guidelines, published by The Society of Occupational Medicine legal firm Capsticks, who outlined the legal implications regarding what employers can and cannot do when it comes to supporting their staff with long COVID speakers from Guy ' s and St Thomas ' NHS Foundation Trust, who shared the work their organisation has done regarding return to work and rehabilitation support for colleagues with long COV...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
London ’s detox unit for homeless people
Service, led by Public Health England (London), was set up in partnership with the Greater London Authority, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, borough councils and the City of London Corporation. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - June 9, 2021 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
