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The chair and other non-executive directors of a social enterprise providing NHS community services have resigned en masse following a row over executive pay, HSJ has learned.

Health minister Lord Howe has said he is “nervous” about the proposal by Robert Francis QC for individual healthcare staff to be liable for criminal sanctions.

Rotherham Foundation Trust is planning to save £5m from its “corporate overheads” as it battles to deliver £50m cost cuts in the next three years.

PERFORMANCE: Patients at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust are getting better, safer care thanks to an initiative to improve the training and supervision of junior medical staff, especially at weekends.

WORKFORCE: University Hospitals of Leicester has appointed Richard Mitchell as chief operating officer.

Hospital trusts are disproportionately targeting non-pay costs and seeking extra income as they embark on a £2.4bn savings drive in 2013-14, an exclusive HSJ analysis reveals.

Junior doctors have poor knowledge about health politics and NHS reforms, research suggests.

Hundreds of senior NHS managers will be taught how to be “more inclusive, compassionate and caring” as part of the response to the Francis inquiry.

Almost three in 10 junior doctors are stretched so thin that they do not have time to deliver quality patient care, a poll suggests.

More than 10,000 NHS staff have been made redundant in the past three financial years as a result of the government’s commissioning reforms, according to official figures published today.

There is a six fold variation in the amount of time medical directors spend on their board duties, new research into leadership has found.

There is a six fold variation in the amount of time medical directors spend on their board duties, new research into leadership has found.

One in 10 posts at NHS England was unfilled as the organisation took its full powers, despite an “intensive recruitment programme”, board papers show.

One in ten posts at NHS England was unfilled as the organisation took its full powers, despite an “intensive recruitment programme”, board papers show.

CLINICAL RESEARCH: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London have appointed a director of research to their Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC).

Care Quality Commission chief executive David Behan is replacing his entire entire executive director team, including the hiring of a “director of change” who was overseeing the introduction of universal credits, HSJ has learned.

Health and care employers should be required to record the training of their healthcare assistants, an influential member of the Lords has said.

PERFORMANCE: Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust has been warned to improve its staffing levels and training for nurses following an unannounced inspection.

Sector regulator Monitor’s chief executive has said senior NHS leaders are not well supported. David Bennett said the problem was dissuading applications for critical posts.

Average pay for provider trust directors increased by 1.8 per cent in 2011-12, according to research shared with HSJ.