The scrapping of NHS England raises questions over the training of healthcare workers in critical areas such as infection control and hospital-acquired infections.
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Wes Streeting told MPs there were currently 15,300 staff at NHS England, and 3,300 in the Department of Health and Social Care. About half of the posts would go, he added.
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NHS England’s workforce will be cut by half, with around 6,500 jobs to go, in a bid to save at least £175m annually.
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Migrant workers in the care sectors are being exploited by employers demanding money if they try to leave, according to the Royal College of Nursing.
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GMC announces that female doctors are greater in number than their male counterparts for the first time ever in the UK.
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Staff retention schemes have cut the number of health workers leaving the NHS to one of the lowest levels in more than a decade.
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The chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission wrote to NHS Fife last month to remind the trust that changing rooms should include separate facilities for men and women.
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A third of NHS doctors (35%) are so tired that their ability to treat patients is impaired, according to a report from the Medical Defence Union.
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A nurse who was deliberately left out of a tea round and was consistently ignored by a colleague has won £41,000 for constructive dismissal.
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Health secretary Wes Streeting has called a decision by the General Medical Council to erase the disciplinary record of doctors who have changed gender ‘extremely concerning’.
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Scottish workers are awarded the biggest pay increases in the public sector, outstripping the rest of the UK.
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The chairman of the Countess of Chester hospital has resigned after a tribunal found that he and others had ‘conspired’ to oust the trust’s chief executive, Dr Susan Gilby.
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Health professionals are being urged to adopt five key principles designed to embed, and promote, the idea that access to...
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The British Medical Association is facing a walk-out after claims it had underpaid tens of advisers.