David Amos
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David Amos on developing the NHS workforce
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.
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David Amos on aiming for NHS perfection
The 2008 Olympics reaffirmed the proposition that it is possible to keep improving on excellence and perfection in sport.
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David Amos on staff engagement
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.
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David Amos on NHS apprenticeships
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'.
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David Amos on workforce planning
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.
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David Amos on directing talent
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.
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David Amos on the principles of equality
Equality and diversity should be at the heart of workforce planning
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David Amos on HR reform in the health service
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
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David Amos on the Wanless report
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?
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David Amos on the case for change
'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.'
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David Amos on the changing world of work
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.