All Education/training articles – Page 95
-
News
DoH rejects MTAS claims
NHS Employers and the Department of Health have dismissed campaigners' claims that few junior doctors' training posts have been filled.
-
News
Noel Plumridge on questioning commissioning
As HSJreaders will be aware, the Department of Health is keen to improve standards of commissioning in the NHS.Much has been written in recent months about demand-management techniques (or rationing, as we used to call it) being the route to financial happiness. About the ...
-
HSJ Knowledge
The Fall Guys: staff safety is a major concern
Violence against NHS staff is still at unacceptable levels, with incidents often unreported and perpetrators uncharged. Emma Dent reports
-
News
London SHA struggling to cope with junior doctor recruitment
London's strategic health authority has spent millions of pounds and employed hundreds of extra staff to handle the junior doctor recruitment process.
-
Comment
A different kind of day at the office
The HSJChallenge offers managers the opportunity to escape their day jobs and pit their wits against their peers in a in a multi-agency health economy with more than its fair share of problems. The good news is that it's not for real. ...
-
News
SHAs slash training fund for doctors
Training of doctors is at risk because strategic health authorities cut training budgets by millions of pounds last year, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Conservative Party.
-
Comment
Media Watch: junior doctors
'How could they be so stupid?' asked the Daily Mail as it berated the government for failing to ensure junior doctors will be guaranteed jobs this summer in the Department of Health's new recruitment process.
-
News
Thousands of junior doctors start new jobs
Hospitals were yesterday faced with thousands of junior doctors starting new jobs at the same time.
-
Comment
Wanted: doctors to help redesign services
The need for more doctors to take on a management role has almost become a mantra, yet progress has been painfully slow. Penny Dash and Pam Garside examine the challenges and opportunities
-
News
DoH: public health must 'focus on outcomes'
NHS public health professionals must become effective commissioners and beef up their analytical skills if new joint strategic needs assessment work alongside local government is to be effective.
-
Comment
Early learning is key weapon in obesity war
Concerns are mounting over rising obesity, but is enough being done to slim down the problem, asks Liz Kendall
-
News
Are GPs making inappropriate referrals to orthopaedic surgeries?
General practitioners have a pivotal role in providing medical care for the NHS - acute referrals to various hospital specialties are often arranged by them. But inappropriate referrals can cause unnecessary inconvenience for the patients and affect the target times for care provision in A&E.
-
News
How to run health networks for young people
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has released a report calling for health services for children and young people to be delivered within networks of care.
-
Comment
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on teaching hospitals
'It is likely that the teaching hospital group will segment into different roles'
-
Comment
Media Watch: nurses protest
Avenging angels hit the headlines and the streets this weekend as they came out in force to protest at, among other things, a below-inflation pay rise.
-
Comment
Media Watch
'The focus has well and truly turned to the NHS, as it once again becomes the battleground for the next election'
-
News
Media Watch
Thousands of junior doctors are to be shipped abroad, The Daily Telegraph said this week as it claimed 'up to 10,000 young doctors unable to find NHS jobs could be offered voluntary work overseas'.
-
HSJ Knowledge
What's quality?
With the emphasis on financial turnaround and the 18-week target, the primary focus of most organisations is finance and delivery. Patient experience and service quality do not seem to get the same attention. But does better-quality healthcare cost more money, or less?
-
News
Select committee: no excuse for training cuts
Slashing the amount spent on NHS staff training to tackle deficits is unacceptable, the Commons health select committee has warned.
-
News
Extra training opportunities for doctors announced
More than 18,000 additional specialty training opportunities will be available in England in 2007 to accompany the introduction of the new specialty training structure under the Modernising Medical Careers initiative.The reform of specialist medical training is the next stage of the MMC initiative, designed to improve the quality and safety ...