'Lansley must listen to nurses on the front line' Nursing Times
Charlotte Santry
Charlotte Santry is chief reporter for HSJ and Nursing Times. For HSJ Charlotte covers regulation including CQC and Monitor, workforce, leadership including clinical leadership and productivity and efficiency. For Nursing Times, her areas are renal, nurse education, occupational health, women's health and adult news.
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CQC demands urgent improvements Plymouth Hospitals
23-Feb-2011
The Care Quality Commission has demanded immediate improvements at Plymouth Hospitals Trust. -
Redundancy payouts to average £48,000
21-Jan-2011
The average NHS employee being made redundant as a result of attempts to strip out management costs is on a £32,000 salary and can expect a £48,000 payout, the impact assessment to yesterday’s bill reveals. -
Pay increment deal 'still on the table' as Employers meets with unions
18-Jan-2011
NHS Employers is meeting with unions today to discuss the rejected proposal to freeze pay increments and avoid compulsory redundancies. -
Chiefs urge further talks as unions reject pay deal
12-Jan-2011
Trusts are hoping to continue talks on a proposal to freeze pay increments and offer greater job security for staff despite it being dismissed by the main health unions involved, Nursing Times’ sister title HSJ has revealed. -
Basildon given all clear as safety concerns are raised
14-Dec-2010
The Care Quality Commission has lifted the final condition on Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust while at the same time raising fresh “major concerns” about patient care at the foundation. -
Pay increment freezes challenged
10-Nov-2010
NHS chief executives must not freeze Agenda for Change increments while awarding themselves “indefensible” pay rises, Royal College of Nursing chief executive and general secretary Peter Carter has argued. -
Nurses to retire later and pay more into pensions
21-Oct-2010
Chancellor George Osborne has announced spending plans that will force nurses and other public sector staff to pay £1.8bn a year more towards their pensions and retire later. -
Shadow health secretary named
8-Oct-2010
The new shadow health secretary is John Healey, former housing minister and member of Gordon Brown’s cabinet. -
Four arm's length bodies being abolished
26-Jul-2010
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, the Appointments Commission, National Patient Safety Agency and Alcohol Education Research Council are being abolished, it has been announced. -
Foundation trusts failing to listen to staff, warns RCN
27-Apr-2010
Foundation trusts are operating a “closed door” culture that excludes staff and patients from important decisions, Royal College of Nursing research warns. -
Lib Dems unveil manifesto with pledge to put nurses in charge of wards
14-Apr-2010
The Liberal Democrats have unveiled their election manifesto, pledging to put nurses and other frontline staff in charge of wards or unit budgets, and allowing staff to establish employee trusts - giving them a say over how their service is run. -
Hospital trusts unaware of failure to meet standards, says CQC
8-Apr-2010
Around half of the trusts that had conditions placed on their registration with the Care Quality Commission had been unaware there were problems. -
Weak NHS managers could be ‘struck off’
March 2010
Plans to “strike off” underperforming managers have been announced by Gordon Brown as a way of dealing with failures such as the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust scandal. -
Barbara Young to quit Care Quality Commission
5-Dec-2009
Baroness Barbara Young is quitting her position as Care Quality Commission chair, Nursing Times has learned. -
Pay freeze sparks fears over nurse staffing levels
13 October 2009
Conservative plans to freeze public sector pay would cause future nursing shortages, unions are warning. -
Andy Burnham makes hospital car parking pledge
30-Sep-2009
Health secretary Andy Burnham has pledged to phase out hospital car parking charges for inpatients and their relatives and friends over the next three years. -
Recession is no excuse to cut sexual health services, PCTs told
29-Sep-2009
Primary care trusts have been urged not to use the recession as an excuse to cut funding for sexual health services. -
NHS patient safety hotline delayed
14-Aug-2009
A ‘key element’ in the drive to improve patient safety - Patient Safety Direct - has been delayed until next summer, despite ministerial assurances that it would be in place last year. -
CQC names high death-rate NHS trusts
August 2009
NHS trusts with unusually high death rates that have sparked alerts have been revealed today for the first time in a move aimed at promoting accountability and patient safety.
