All Education/training articles – Page 96
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Thousands of junior doctors start new jobs
Hospitals were yesterday faced with thousands of junior doctors starting new jobs at the same time.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on teaching hospitals
'It is likely that the teaching hospital group will segment into different roles'
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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'.
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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.
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Media Watch
'The focus has well and truly turned to the NHS, as it once again becomes the battleground for the next election'
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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?
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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.
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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 ...
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Damning Commons report on NHS deficits
MPs have accused the Department of Health of prioritising cuts in training for NHS staff because they are the easiest to make.In a damning report on NHS deficits, the Commons health select committee said that cuts in the education of health workers was having adverse effects on staff morale and ...
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Hewitt announces new medical research centres
Eleven new biomedical research centres of excellence have been announced by health secretary Patricia Hewitt.The centres, which will focus on translational research, will be partnerships between NHS acute trusts, foundation trusts and universities.Read more here
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Immigration rules could prevent UK medical studies, BMA claims
British Medical association representatives have met with Home Office minister Liam Byrne and health minister Lord Warner in a bid to seek exemption for medical students from new immigration rules.The body claims new rules that mean work permits will have to be applied for to do postgraduate training will prevent ...
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Staff grade doctors seek assurance on career progression
The chair of the British Medical Association's staff grade and associate specialist committee Mohib Khan has written to health minister Lord Warner to seek assurances that funding will be provided to allow staff grade and associate specialist doctors training to become consultants.To read the letter click ...
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Health Foundation extends Safer Patients Initiative
Twenty hospitals will today receive £165,000 each under a scheme to improve patient safety. Funded by the Health Foundation charity, the Safer Patients Initiative will see a tailored package of support for each hospital including access to international experts. The four hospitals in the scheme since its launch in 2004 ...
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NHS financial crisis squeezing medical education, BMA warns
Patient care could be affected by cuts to medical training and education, according to the British Medical Association. Funding for study leave and academic posts in medical schools has been cut to help tackle deficits. The BMA junior doctors committee has written to health secretary ...