Health Management and Policy Alert

Guidance for panels on the updated job matching profiles for nursing and midwifery

NHS Employers - 
This guidance has been written for local job evaluation leads and panellists to support their understanding and use of the updated profiles for nursing and midwifery. It provides an explanation of the updated format for profiles and provides further advice to ensure matching panels are able to use the profiles effectively and consistently.

• Guidance

Action needed on job evaluation outcomes for nursing and midwifery staff

NHS Employers - 
This guidance, produced by the NHS Staff Council, is for local partnerships to support the publication of updated profiles for nursing and midwifery and improvement of local job evaluation practices.

• Guidance

The Care Act 2014 and occupational therapy: a handy summary

Local Government Association (LGA) - 
This short resource has been developed to support the occupational therapy workforce as part of council preparations for CQC assessment. It summarises the key principles of the Care Act 2014 and the universal and specific duties placed on councils as they relate to occupational therapy, with particular focus on prevention, wellbeing, and promoting independence. Where tips have been included to encourage thinking in preparation for CQC assessment.

• Briefing

Preparing for CQC assessment: a resource for principal occupational therapists

Local Government Association (LGA) - 
This resource was developed following consultation with principal occupational therapists (POTs) from the national and ADASS regional POT networks and incorporates learning and tips from POTs who have gone through Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessment.

• Guidance

2025 Spending Review: what's the RCN asking for?

Royal College of Nursing (RCN) - 
This submission to the government's 2025 Spending Review argues that there is an opportunity to start addressing some of the challenges within the nursing workforce and wider health and care system. The RCN ask that the 10-Year Health Plan and the forthcoming Workforce Plan for England, and the Spending Review are aligned in terms of funding, ambition and planning.

• Submission

Implementing innovative flexible working to combat escalating demand on services

NHS Employers - 
This case study outlines how Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust used an innovative flexible working model to combat escalating demand for imaging diagnostic services.

• Case study

Forty-seventh annual report on senior salaries

Senior Salaries Review Body -
This report sets out the Senior Salaries Review Body’s analysis of evidence. It makes recommendations on the remuneration of senior civil servants, senior officers in the Armed Forces, members of the judiciary, and senior leaders in the NHS in England.

• Report
• Senior Salaries Review Body - publications

Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration: fifty third report – 2025

Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration -
This report contains recommendations and observations from the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration on doctors’ and dentists’ pay in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

• Report
• Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration - publications

NHS Pay Review Body: thirty-eighth report 2025

NHS Pay Review Body -
This report sets out the NHS Pay Review Body’s analysis of evidence provided by relevant organisations and makes observations on the pay of NHS staff paid under Agenda for Change for 2025.

• Report
• NHS Pay Review Body - publications

Unreciprocated care: why internationally educated nursing staff are leaving the UK

Royal College of Nursing - 

Internationally educated nursing staff have been making a critical contribution to UK health and care systems for the better part of a century but continue to face challenges every step of the way to becoming a nurse in the UK. This report explores those challenges using research findings of an RCN survey of over 3,000 international nursing staff and qualitative insights from 25 in-depth interviews.

• Report
• Press release