Knowledge @lert for Tuesday 10th October
NHS pay rises will be ‘linked to productivity’, says Jeremy Hunt
Jeremy Hunt has told MPs the cap on pay rises for NHS staff has been scrapped but any change would be tied to a deal on productivity.
NHS staff health and wellbeing CQUIN
NHS England has published NHS staff health & wellbeing: CQUIN 2017-19 Indicator 1 Implementation Support. This supplementary guidance outlines the case for the Health and Wellbeing CQUIN, provides clarification on the criteria set out in the indicator specifications for the 2017-19 Health and Wellbeing CQUIN and provides tools and resources for the implementation of each CQUIN indicator.
General practice threatens to withhold repeat prescriptions until patients have flu vaccine – BMJ
General practices are being warned not to let their push to deliver flu vaccinations this winter spill over into “bad behaviour,” after a practice was reported to healthcare leaders for threatening to withhold repeat prescriptions from patients until they had been vaccinated there.
Simon Stevens and Jim Mackey face MPs
Live coverage as the NHS England and NHS Improvement chiefs face the Commons health committee
Prime Minister launches world-leading project on impact of ethnicity on everyday life.
The Prime Minister will challenge society to “explain or change” disparities in how people from different backgrounds are treated, as the government publishes the findings of a ground breaking audit of public services.
New infographic launched on the routes into nursing
Find out more about the different routes employers can support to gain registered nurses.
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HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)
- NHS pay cap has been scrapped, says Jeremy Hunt Jeremy Hunt has told MPs the cap on pay rises for NHS staff has been scrapped but any change would be tied to a deal on productivity. The health secretary said today the policy of pay restraint in the NHS since 2010 was necessary to allow the service to recruit thousands of additional doctors and nurses, but he accepted the pay cap could not continue indefinitely.
- Women NHS leaders offered industry internships to help ‘create level playing field’ Women leaders in the NHS are being offered customised internships outside the health service to boost their skills and launch them into executive director roles.
- CQC: Trusts drop ratings amid ‘precarious’ care quality More than a quarter of mental health trusts and almost a fifth of acute trusts previously rated “good” have got worse on reinspection, the Care Quality Commission’s annual State of Care report reveals.
- CCG leaders admit struggle to balance day job with STP roles Senior members of an inadequate clinical commissioning group have said directors’ ability to carry out their jobs is hampered because of extra work related to their sustainability and transformation partnership.
- Devon trusts to share staff across regionMedical staff will work across trusts in a success regime region under a new system devised by health chiefs to reduce pressure on struggling services.
- Opening the door to boardroom diversity Women from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnicities do not get a level playing field when it comes to leadership roles in NHS trusts – and this needs to be changed.