Nick Kituno is a Workforce Correspondent at HSJ. He specializes in health and wellness, with a focus on the NHS workforce and the North West of England, while also occasionally covering sports. Nick's work has been featured in West London Sport and HSJ Local.
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Nick Kituno's coverage indicates a strong emphasis on human resources and employment issues, particularly within the context of government policy and its impact on organizations. Given this focus, he may be interested in pitches that offer insights into labor policies, organizational management challenges, or analyses of government decisions affecting workplace dynamics.
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The NHS will strengthen efforts to combat "anti-Muslim hostility" after a government-commissioned racism review was criticised for prioritising the threat of antisemitism.
Board members will be held accountable for tackling workplace racism via personal objectives that must be made public under new national standards.
More than one in 10 staff in NHS England's national delivery functions have left through voluntary redundancy, more than double the rate of other directorates, HSJ can reveal.
NHS England regions have begun introducing their own regional performance management regimes for providers, on top of the NHS Oversight Framework.
Hundreds of operating theatre staff are to strike at four hospitals in Greater Manchester due to a dispute around overtime payments.
NHS Employers has called on the government to pause its crackdown on "exploitative" zero-hours contracts, warning it could land the NHS with around £900m a year additional costs.
Government attempts to crackdown on "exploitative" zero-hours contracts could adversely affect bank staff and cost the NHS £900m a year, the body representing NHS workforce leaders has claimed.
By: Nick Kituno
Directors and other "very senior managers" at trusts and integrated care boards are still waiting for their agreed pay rise for 2026-27, despite the financial year being nearly half over.
The number of NHS staff in England is in year-on-year decline for the first time since 2013, as cuts to support and back-office roles combine with a sharp slowdown in clinical recruitment.
Hundreds of NHS England staff who took partial retirement are in danger of receiving redundancy payments which are tens of thousands of pounds lower than they expected.
