NHS Employers represents trusts in England on workforce issues and helps employers to ensure the NHS is a place where people want to work.
With more than 35 million work days lost each year in the UK to occupational ill health and injury, it has been widely acknowledged that physiotherapists should play a key role in delivering future occupational health strategies, which in turn must be brought into mainstream healthcare provision.
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 has caused a stir in boardrooms across the land.
Negotiators for NHS Employers and the NHS trade unions have recently reached a significant milestone. After many months of discussion, proposals have been agreed for a new system of pay enhancements for Agenda for Change staff whose standard working week includes work in the evenings, early in the morning, at weekends, on bank holidays or at night.
The Border and Immigration Agency has said it will be removing 38 healthcare occupations from the national shortage occupation list.
NHS Employers has responded to reports of CV falsification in the NHS, saying that the NHS conducts rigorous employment checks and patients can have confidence that the staff who treat them are who they say they are and that they have the appropriate qualifications.
The Home Office has announced changes to immigration rules that will restrict new international medical graduates' access to UK post-graduate medical training.
Allied health professionals play a vital role in delivering services to millions of patients, but there is still potential to use their expertise in assessment, diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation to even greater effect.
Pension scheme changes that were agreed between NHS Employers and NHS trade unions will save employers £430m a year, according to a government actuary report published in December.
