All Clinical Leaders articles – Page 6
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NewsTrusts can keep clinicians’ unused pension contributions
Trusts will be allowed to determine whether they will pay or keep the contributions they would be required to pay into doctors’ pension funds if their clinicians opt for one of the government’s proposed pension tax workarounds.
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NewsTrust’s management blasted by outgoing director
An acute trust’s outgoing director of infection prevention and control has warned infection control was “not driven from the centre of the organisation” and that a lack of engagement from managers, and the medical and nursing establishment went “under the radar”.
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Ministers to outline pensions crisis plans
Senior doctors and nurses will be allowed to set their own level of pension contributions each tax year under government proposals to tackle the pensions crisis gripping the health service.
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NewsRegulator announces interim CEO
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has appointed an interim chief executive.
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NewsTrusts could pay consultants through companies to avoid pension tax
A group of NHS trusts had explored letting doctors set up their own companies as a workaround for consultants who have cut their additional hours to avoid being hit with “punitive” tax bills, HSJ has learned. Trusts have explored LLPs as a workaround to ’punitive’ pension tax bills problem ...
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NewsTrust CEO says pension proposals make him feel like ‘second-class NHS citizen’
The government has been accused by senior NHS figures of treating managers unfairly after confirming pension changes would not apply to them.
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NewsManagers still excluded from NHS pensions proposals despite rethink
The government is proposing allowing senior doctors to set their own pension contributions alongside a review of how tax rules are impacting clinicians, in a bid to prevent doctors refusing extra NHS work.
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CommentPrimary care networks are a quiet revolution
Primary care networks have huge potential, but how they interact with other NHS providers is crucial, argues Andrew Ridley
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: A closer look at supervision
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping ...
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NewsInvestigation of serious safety incidents to be overhauled
The NHS will move away from traditional thresholds for serious incident investigations as part of its new national patient safety strategy.
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CommentWhen is a saving not a saving?
NHS bodies and management consultancies often resort to false accounting and use misleading language to describe finances in order to keep the show running, notes Nadeem Moghal
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NewsDeputy clinical directors will share the primary care network load
Commissioners in the East Midlands are hiring deputy directors to support the clinical directors leading its primary care networks.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE pressured us to protect ‘absurd’ cancer services, says top doctor
A leading doctor who served on an NHS England group tasked with designing new child cancer standards has told HSJ that changes to soften the proposals were “insisted on” by its officials.
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CommentHealthcare expert witnesses should get professional training
A newly published guidance on how healthcare professionals should be trained to be expert witnesses aims to ensure more consistency and better standards in the evidence provided by medical expert witnesses, says Mark Solon.
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HSJ InteractiveWatch the HSJ webinar on fit and proper person test
The future of the fit and proper person test will come under scrutiny in an HSJ webinar next week.
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CommentThe NHS should build overseas 'workforce factories'
To meet the widening healthcare workforce gap, Dr Nadeem Moghal suggests a new bold and ethical model of education that seeks to build local capability in the low and middle income countries from where the UK sources healthcare workers
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HSJ InteractiveInteroperability – the vital ingredient
Healthcare providers are increasingly realising the vital importance and benefits of enabling patient care systems to speak to one another
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HSJ LocalChair of challenged STP to stand down
The independent chair of the Mid and South Essex Sustainability and Transformation Partnership will stand down later this year.
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NewsExclusive: Government drops key safe staffing measure
Publication of nurse staffing levels at each hospital in England – introduced after the Francis Inquiry to boost safety – has been quietly dropped, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentThe NHS must prepare for the global workforce war
As a worldwide healthcare workforce crisis gathers pace, the NHS can play a major role in boosting productivity in the UK in view of Brexit, says Mark Britnell