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Women represent an overwhelming majority of the healthcare workforce, yet they are significantly underrepresented in senior leadership positions.

MiP welcomes the Kark Review of the Fit and Proper Person Test (FPPT), as we believe that reform of the FPPT is long-overdue.

“Deliberate underfunding” of health and care services by the Treasury is creating “great hardship for the people of this country and putting huge pressure on staff,” MiP chief executive Jon Restell told MiP’s Member’s Summit on 6 November.

Changes to the government’s apprenticeship levy scheme1 are needed to boost the number of NHS employers hiring apprentices, NHS Improvement’s national director of people strategy told MiP’s Members Summit.

Two women NHS leaders warned that the NHS needs to give better support to senior managers and develop leadership teams that better represent the populations they serve in a conversation session with Channel 4 health correspondent Victoria Macdonald at the MiP Members’ Summit .

Marie Gabriel, the chair of East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT), led a Management Life workshop on promoting staff health and wellbeing at the MiP Members’ Summit on 6 November.

Working in healthcare can be emotionally exhausting, even occasionally traumatic, but many staff don’t get the chance to deal with the emotional burden of their work, Summit delegates attending a Management Life workshop heard.