Health Service Journal
David Amos
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David Amos on developing the NHS workforce
1-Dec-2008
Into media coverage dominated by world events has crept something intriguing about bees. Scientists at Queensland University have used nectar-drenched markers in a tunnel to show that the insects can count up to four. -
David Amos on aiming for NHS perfection
20-Oct-2008
The 2008 Olympics reaffirmed the proposition that it is possible to keep improving on excellence and perfection in sport. -
David Amos on staff engagement
11-Aug-2008
The people of Hounslow, west London, have been impressed by a street cleaner who dances like Michael Jackson. This is either the council chief executive on a back to the floor initiative thinking about how much his contract is worth, or an extremely engaged employee. -
David Amos on NHS apprenticeships
9-Jun-2008
Last autumn, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao delivered a speech to the Communist Party congress entitled, 'Hold High the Great Banner of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and Strive for New Victories in Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in all Respects'. -
David Amos on workforce planning
6-May-2008
A clip on YouTube called Shifthappens broadcasts statistical evidence to demonstrate that the human race is experiencing a world of exponential growth. NHS workforce planners should take note. -
David Amos on directing talent
24-Mar-2008
2008 could be the year that the widespread development of talented frontline staff and the spotting of potential senior staff takes centre stage in the NHS. -
David Amos on the principles of equality
11-Feb-2008
Equality and diversity should be at the heart of workforce planning -
David Amos on HR reform in the health service
26-Nov-2007
HR reform is sweeping public and private employers - 53 per cent of organisations have restructured their HR function in the past year, and 81 per cent have done so in the last five years -
David Amos on the Wanless report
22-Oct-2007
Six years have passed since the publication of Sir Derek Wanless's interim report on the long-term view for the NHS. What has changed since then? -
David Amos on the case for change
17-Sep-2007
'The experience of the Blitz was used as evidence that, on the whole, people wanted to stay put - sixty years later, and the NHS is at it again.' -
David Amos on the changing world of work
23-Aug-2007
A leading psychiatrist in the 1920s identified potential developments in pharmaceutical products as the means to end all mental illness. There was a time when orthopaedics appeared to be a very limited specialty, before scientists came up with the artificial implant. Medicine continually confounds the soothsayers.
