Trusts entering care market ‘threaten viability of existing providers’
A local authority where a foundation trust has registered to provide social care has warned the move may destabilise other organisations, and encouraged NHS providers to focus on community health services. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - December 6, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Revealed: Outsourced care spend doubles in waiting list push
The amount spent by NHS trusts on outsourcing activity to other providers has doubled since the period before covid. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - December 6, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Big Cons: How Consultancy Firms Undermine Governments
By Ong Kar Jin and Jomo Kwame SundaramKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec 6 2023 (IPS) Greater government reliance on consulting companies has greatly enriched them while also undermining state capacities, capabilities, national economies, progress, governance and legitimacy.
The Big Con
Over recent decades, policy consultancy has gradually gained more public attention. With the COVID-19 pandemic, consultancies were paid billions, with meagre results, leaving even less for millions of others desperately struggling to cope.
Ong Kar JinIn The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ong Kar Jin and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Economy & Trade Education Financial Crisis Global Headlines Health Labour TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
ICB tenders £1.8bn contract to iron out ‘unwarranted variation’
An integrated care board is advertising a contract worth around £1.8bn in what it says will be a major shake-up of community health services. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - December 6, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
ICB tenders £1.8bn contract to shake-up community services
An integrated care board is advertising a contract worth around £1.8bn in what will represent a major shake-up of community health services, and the biggest such deal from an ICB so far. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - December 6, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Junior doctors announce strike in first week of January
The British Medical Association has announced nine days of further strike action by junior doctors, after extended talks with the government failed to produce an offer the union felt could be put to members. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - December 5, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Staff set to miss out on ‘covid bonus’ despite government U-turn
Staff in some organisations providing NHS services – including in trusts’ subsidiary companies – are likely to miss out the one-off ‘covid bonus’ paid to other health service staff, despite an apparent government agreement to fund it, HSJ has been told (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - December 5, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Trust reviewing bed capacity after three patient deaths
A coroner has warned a trust in the West Midlands for the third time about bed shortages, after three patient deaths which he believes are linked. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - December 5, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Frontline staff face lottery when it comes to essential criminal-check costs
Staff working with vulnerable people face a lottery when it comes to who pays for an essential check needed to do their jobs, says UNISON.
Employers have a legal duty to carry out criminal record checks on frontline public sector workers. A recent survey from the union found that more than four in ten (42%) are passing on the cost of that to their employees.
UNISON believes this means almost two and a half million frontline public sector workers are paying for their own criminal record checks.
Women (74%) and the lowest paid (85%) make up the majority of people working in jobs that require the checks, the research found.
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Source: UNISON Health care news - December 5, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Dan Ashley Tags: News Press release DBS; cost-of-work; Source Type: news
Frontline staff face lottery when it comes to essential criminal check costs
Staff working with vulnerable people face a lottery when it comes to who pays for an essential check needed to do their jobs, says UNISON.
Employers have a legal duty to carry out criminal record checks on frontline public sector workers. A recent survey from the union found that more than four in ten (42%) are passing on the cost of that to their employees.
UNISON believes this means almost two and a half million frontline public sector workers could be paying for their own criminal record checks.
UNISON’s research found that almost three-quarters of people working in jobs requiring the checks are women (74%) and 85%...
Source: UNISON Health care news - December 5, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Dan Ashley Tags: News Press release DBS; cost-of-work; Source Type: news
Blog: The final hammer blow to our crumbling social care system
The government has put the final hammer blow to our crumbling social care system. The home secretary’s announcement of new immigration plans will sacrifice migrant care workers and risk a total collapse of the UK’s care system, just to appease extremist Tory backbenchers.
The health and care visa was introduced in 2020 to plug workforce gaps, but because headlines of soaring immigration numbers are compounding Rishi Sunak’s polling problems, he’s playing roulette with our essential services.
Had he, or his ministers, spoken to any employer in the care sector, they would know that any plans to curb the migrant care ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - December 5, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Christina McAnea Tags: General Secretary's blog care Christina McAnea national care service Source Type: news
West Yorkshire hospital workers win re-banding and thousands of pounds in back pay
Many of the healthcare assistants working in A&E at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust have been on band two of the national Agenda for Change pay scale, but have undertaken clinical duties falling under band three for several years.
Thanks to UNISON, the workers have now been re-banded to band three and are set to receive around £3,000 in back pay.
The victory marks the latest success in UNISON’s Pay Fair for Patient Care campaign, which has seen repeated re-banding wins across the country.
Pay Fair For Patient Care calls for all band two staff with increased responsibilities to be paid at the corre...
Source: UNISON Health care news - December 5, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Janey Starling Tags: Article News healthcare assistants pay fair for patient care Yorkshire and Humberside Source Type: news
Cruel migration plans are a disaster for health and social care
Commenting on the government’s migration plans, which include stopping overseas workers from bringing their families to the UK, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
“These cruel plans spell total disaster for the NHS and social care. They benefit no one.
“Migrant workers were encouraged to come here because both sectors are critically short of staff. Hospitals and care homes simply couldn’t function without them.
“There’s also a global shortage of healthcare staff. Migrants will now head to more-welcoming countries, rather than be forced to live without their families.
“The gov...
Source: UNISON Health care news - December 5, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Dan Ashley Tags: News Press release migrant workers NHS social care Source Type: news
Ex-national director to lead ICS group
The former medical director of NHS Improvement – who now holds several local board roles – is to become chair of the national NHS Integrated Care System network. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - December 5, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
‘Same day’ emergency care drops at 40 trusts, despite NHSE push
A third of acute trusts are doing proportionally less “same day emergency care” activity than a year ago, despite this being a key pillar of NHS England’s recovery plan, data suggests. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - December 5, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
