All Education/training articles – Page 82
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HSJ Knowledge
Pass on your skills
With a worrying number of health and social care professionals fearing future skills shortages, two new courses could help to plug the gaps
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News
Major inconsistencies between medical schools
Tests taken byUKdoctors show enormous variation in performance depending on which medical school they attended, according to new research.
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HSJ Knowledge
Tolerance of NHS mistakes needs major overhaul
In other industries mistakes are considered unacceptable, yet in the NHS minor errors cause thousands of extra days in hospital
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News
Training cuts could stifle talking therapy
A government pledge to make 'talking therapies' more available is being jeopardised by higher education funding cuts, training providers have claimed.
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Comment
Find the funds to keep violence in check
Uniquely among the main care disciplines, mental health services routinely have to manage a triangle of potentially violent relationships: patients attacking staff, patients attacking each other and - when it comes to restraining aggression - staff using force on patients.
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HSJ Knowledge
New basic skills programme launched
NHS Connecting for Health is to drop the European Computer Driving Licence service in favour of a new Essential IT Skills Programme.
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HSJ Knowledge
QNI
Staff in the NHS might be expected to be better at looking after their own health than most people. They have health promotion information to hand, they either are, or work closely with, clinicians, and they are usually provided with excellent occupational health services. Perhaps equally important, they are regularly ...
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News
Connecting for Health unveils new IT training programme
NHS Connecting for Health will introduce a new IT skills training programme on 3 March, replacing its European Computer Driving Licence programme, which will close later that month.
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News
'Pay for performance' could be next, says NHS medical director
The NHS medical director has warned managers of the national clinical audit programme that they 'must deliver' or they could lose their contract.
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HSJ Knowledge
Apprenticeships bring new skills to the health sector
More and more healthcare employers are realising that apprenticeships offer a workforce development solution that supports new ways of delivering services and improving patient care.
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HSJ Knowledge
Apprenticeships bring new skills to the health sector
More and more healthcare employers are realising that apprenticeships offer a workforce development solution that supports new ways of delivering services and improving patient care.
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News
Volunteering in Cambodia: surviving the first two months
In the second of a series on volunteering abroad in the health service, Patricia Sloan talks about her new life in Cambodia and shares photos from her adventure
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News
Volunteering in Cambodia: surviving the first two months
In the second of a series on volunteering abroad in the health service, Patricia Sloan talks about her new life in Cambodia and shares photos from her adventure
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HSJ Knowledge
Out of the picture
The NHS is still dragging its feet on race equality, especially in top posts. So will the relaunched Breaking Through programme kick-start the revolution, asks Caroline White
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HSJ Knowledge
Cambodia
In the second of series on volunteering abroad, Patricia Sloan talks about how she is settling in to a new life in Cambodia.It is exactly two months since I left from Manchester Airport outward bound for Phnom Penh and into the unknown. I had spent the weeks prior to ...
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News
Royal colleges call for more input from doctors at Department of Health
A medical 'vacuum' is being created at the heart of the Department of Health by the exclusion of doctors from key decision making, doctors' leaders have warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
Dementia care: in search of the person behind the condition
There will be a massive rise in the number of people with dementia in the next 15 years. They will all require a gold standard of person centred care, where they are kept occupied and their identity recognised
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HSJ Knowledge
It’s all about the individual
This HSJ Award-winning training and quality development programme for educators teaches a thoroughly patient-centred approach. Stuart Shepherd is keen to learn more
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HSJ Knowledge
KSF – the challenges ahead
Affecting around 1 million NHS staff on Agenda for Change terms and conditions, the Knowledge and Skills Framework is now helping many NHS trusts to achieve their workforce priorities. It supports them in re-designing their services, as well as in developing and retaining their workforce and engaging with their staff. ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Perfect match
The training of more junior staff has been neglected in the past. But an initiative that provides match-funding for investment in their skills is a big boost for those in bands 1-4, reports Stuart Shepherd