Alison Moore

Clinicians and managers knew of problems with an ear, nose and throat waiting list five years before a backlog of nearly 9,000 patients came to light, an NHS England review has found.

An ambulance trust is to strengthen safeguarding for students after sacking two senior staff for sexual misconduct and identifying "inherent power imbalances" that put learners at risk.

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A trust has called for "tangible improvements" in behaviour from some of its senior clinicians, after an external review reported bullying, harassment and racism.

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An integrated care board which has seen the amount it spends on autism and ADHD care increase 30-fold in three years is set to bust its budget again.

An acute trust would have to cut its workforce by almost 15 per cent and its costs by 26 per cent under a draft five-year plan set by its integrated care board.

An acute trust would have to cut its workforce by almost 15 per cent and its costs by 26 per cent under a draft five-year plan set by its integrated care board.

Doctors from certain backgrounds are far less likely to be offered specialist training places in the UK than white candidates, new data suggest. But exactly how much of a gap black and Asian doctors face varies hugely across different specialties, in figures obtained by The BMJ . Across all specialties black doctors are four times less likely to be offered a training place than white applicants, official data from NHS England (NHSE) show. But in some specialties the gap is much wider, the starkest example being core training 1 (CT1) in anaesthetics. In this specialty black applicants stood less than a 1 in a 100 chance of being offered a place in 2024 and were 30 times less likely to be offered a place than white counterparts. Only 10 of 1158 black applicants received an offer, which compared with 7% of Asian applicants (111/1696) and a third of white applicants (556/1668). In general practice all ethnicities stood a similar chance of being shortlisted, but black doctors were offered a place only 20% of the time (1328/6487) and Asian doctors only 23% of the time (2378/9221), which compared with 64% (2162/3076) of white applicants. Core psychiatry—another high volume specialism—saw just 5% (171/3133) of black applicants placed and 9% (320/3521) of Asian candidates, which compared with 41% (402/981) of white applicants. In obstetrics and gynaecology at specialty training year 1 (ST1), white applicants (205/509) were nearly 11 times more likely to be offered a place than black candidates (61/1640). And in acute care common stem emergency medicine (where 39/522 black applicants were offered a place v 316/660 white applicants) and clinical radiology at ST1 (where 18/576 black applicants were offered a place v 105/552 white applicants), …

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