The government imposed a pay deal on NHS staff covered by the Agenda for Change framework, after a majority of unions on the NHS Staff Council voted to accept it. The Royal College of Nursing and Unite may still take more strike action and doctors are not covered.
In big news for NHS IT, NHS England announced that director of transformation Tim Ferris will return to the US at the end of the summer. A new National Improvement Board and Digital Policy Unit look set to take on a lot of the work of his directorate, which absorbed NHSX and NHS Digital.
