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Northern Care Alliance launches redundancy scheme to cut corporate servs by 14%. Docs seen by HSJ suggest >100 roles to go

Teams like Quality Improvement, Infection risk, Patient experience, Chaplaincy & Safe Staffing are all in scope

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New chief digital information officer for Yorkshire AMBULANCE Service.

Research here finding community organisations are still being excluded from system health and wellbeing planning and design - which will stifle progress in tackling health inequalities.

How odd to attack the CMO for supporting a measure which will improve public health.

Truss accuses Chris Whitty of pushing smoking ban out of belief that 'government knows best'

Interesting choice to take on CMO directly

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Truss -50

Awful case of lack of communication between clinicians and patient and between different members of the team.

Behind this is a no win no fee firm which will take up to 25 per cent of any compensation. My data was among that affected by this breach but I don't really want to make lawyers richer.

Dame Ruth May announces retirement ift.tt/QtFUxAb

I met with Maria Caulfield MP this morning to talk about Beatrice, maternity safety, and our call for a #MaternityInquiry Maternity Safety Alliance. We covered a lot of ground in an hour and I hope this is just the start of an ongoing conversation.

This is turning out to be quite a saga theargus.co.uk/news/24251306.…

📢Please be aware that the escalators at the main entrance of St Peter’s Hospital are currently out of service.
These will be repaired over the coming weekend (20th/ 21st April).
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause; we do have accessible lifts for patient use.

Letter to the Public Accounts Committee reveals that audit fees for NHS trusts have more than doubled in five years

Despite this, the department of health and social care's 2022-23 accounts were significantly overdue

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One for cachuchas ?

NHSE U-turns over axing staff mental health support ift.tt/1sFM3l9

Great one for a pub quiz - his brother, Jan, won a Nobel for economics.

Oh dear, oh dear. I'm sure no NHS orgs would be so daft as to do similar, would they?

TO BE CLEAR: PERSONS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS ARE FAR, FAR MORE LIKELY TO BE VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE AS OPPOSED TO PERPETRATORS. Please do not demonise & vilify an entire community based on the heinous & horrific crimes of an individual.

From a press release this morning: I thought we had gone beyond referring to 'fault' around infertility? It's a very emotive word in this context.

Not the NHS (although close to it) but this is a pretty horrifying tale of what can happen to a whistleblower. Good that he eventually won his case but a\ hell of an impactr on his career. cornish-times.co.uk/news/emotional…

Really have to ask why any trust would choose a different target to aim at than the one put forward by NICE. Why do they think they know better? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…