Radiotherapy workforce census summary report 2021 – Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
This census report finds that patients are receiving a just about ‘adequate’ service for their radiotherapy treatment but there is little room for training new staff or implementing the latest treatment technologies to improve care. There is also a struggle to recruit clinical technologists and there is often difficulties in finding maternity and sick cover, leaving services strained. Overall, there is a vacancy rate in the radiotherapy workforce of eight per cent, with the greatest number of vacancies at entry level.

Interim bulletin: harm caused by delays in transferring patients to the right place of care. – Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch
This investigation explores issues around patient handover to emergency care. This bulletin outlines early investigation findings and recommends a national response to tackle this issue. Findings so far emphasise that an effective response should consider the interactions of the whole system: an end-to-end approach that does not just focus on one area of health care and prioritises patient safety.

Shattered hopes: black and minority ethnic leaders’ experiences of breaking the glass ceiling in the NHS – NHS Confederation
This survey, carried out by the NHS Confederation’s BME Leadership Network, found that many senior leaders from BME backgrounds had experienced verbal abuse and behaviour targeting their racial, national or cultural heritage at least once in the last three years. In addition, only one in ten respondents were confident that the NHS is delivering its commitment to combat institutional racism.

Shared decision making standard – Professional Record Standards Body
This standard on shared decision making aims to provide a framework for clinicians to record the decision-making process between themselves and their patients. The standard also allows the shared decision information to be shared between professionals and their different record systems.

Tip of the iceberg: 12-hour stays in the emergency department – Royal College of Emergency Medicine 
This report reveals that on average 1,047 patients waited 12-hours or more from their time of arrival every day in a major Emergency Department in 2021 in England, equalling a total of 381,991 patients experiencing these 12-hour waits in 2021.

HSJ Roundup

Ditch recruiters who don’t deliver diverse candidates, says NHSE director An NHS England leadership chief has criticised the lack of diversity among the top ranks of the country’s new integrated care systems, adding the low level of ethnic minority representation ‘really isn’t good enough’.

Third 2022 covid wave will cause less hospitalisation, predicts Powis NHS England medical director Sir Steve Powis has told HSJ he expects fewer admissions during the new covid wave than the two previous 2022 surges.

Mapped: RTT waiting times An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in April 2022, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.

Over half of ethnic minority NHS leaders consider quitting due to racism Just over half of senior ethnic minority leaders have considered leaving the NHS due to experiencing workplace racism, a survey shared with HSJ suggests.

GP funding formula set for change, says NHSE director NHS England’s medical director for primary care has promised reform of GP funding allocations as part of contract renegotiations.

Spending on regulation has ‘gone too far’, says NHSE chief Sir David Sloman has said the proportion of the NHS budget being spent on regulation has ‘gone too far’ and needs to be shifted to frontline services.

Trust rows back on ‘too tall or too short’ dismissal threat Staff risk being sacked because they are too short or too tall to drive a van-conversion ambulance, union officials have warned.

Rail strikes ‘will kill people’, warns NHS leader Next week’s rail strikes will “probably end up killing people” as they will prevent staff working for already struggling ambulance trusts from getting to work, a senior NHS leader has told HSJ.

ICS leader: We’re still facing short-sighted trusts An integrated care system chair has said systems will still face ’short-sighted’ competitive behaviour from trusts, citing a trust chair who didn’t want his staff to take part in a system-wide executive development programme.

Javid wants top leaders to leave ‘walled gardens’ and take over struggling trusts Sajid Javid has said ‘underperforming’ trusts could be forced to join ‘reform partnerships’ designed to spread the NHS’s best leaders across areas which are struggling.

Revealed: The top-performing ICSs defying deprivation challenges A cluster of integrated care systems across the North of England has bucked the trend to deliver successful integration schemes and better patient outcomes despite high levels of deprivation, new analysis has found.

NHS England reviewing bed capacity The NHS has a low bed base, and NHS England is reviewing ‘how we right-size our capacity’ across hospital, community and ‘virtual’ services, Amanda Pritchard has said.

‘Don’t stand in way of integration if clinicians want it’, says CEO A trust chief executive says leaders ‘should not stand in the way’ of controversial plans for further integration with a neighbouring provider if that is the direction being set by clinicians.

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