All Pay articles – Page 71
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NewsManager suspended on full pay for five years
A senior hospital manager has received £315,000 in salary payments from a trust in Nottingham, after being suspended on full pay for almost five years.
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£87m 'black hole' for health board
Health bosses in Wales are facing a £87.5 million budget hole, Wales Online has revealed.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe truth about NHS pay: PM’s pay is not the prime number
In the second of three articles tackling myths about public sector salaries, Peter Smith looks at misunderstandings around top managers’ pay
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LeaderNHS managers are not overpaid – but their rewards must reflect results
Health service managers are comfortable with - or at least resigned to - the paradox of rising public expectation and plunging public regard.
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Curbing public sector pay will be difficult, study claims
The new government will find it difficult to impose a pay freeze in the public sector because of rising inflation and a thaw in wage restraint in private firms, according to a new report.
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HSJ Knowledge
Exposed: the truth about NHS pay
Public sector pay is coming under intense scrutiny from the press and politicians. Over three weeks Peter Smith will dispel some of the myths they perpetuate
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CommentMedia Watch: the Liberal Democrats
The Liberal Democrats may be flavour of the month in the media but their latest effort may not go down well with managers.
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NewsPay and stress put medics off chief exec role
The insecurity of life at the top is a major deterrent to doctors becoming senior NHS managers, a report has warned.
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NewsThousands of NHS jobs 'at risk'
Efforts to cut NHS spending could put more than 5,600 jobs at risk in England, leaving the system under “real strain”, it is claimed.
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LeaderNHS pay: will you dare to lead by example?
Will the post-election period bring radical pay reductions and pension reform to the public sector similar to those being experienced in Ireland?
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CommentMark Britnell on keeping the wolf from the NHS door
The annual deficit in public expenditure is 13 per cent of GDP. This cannot continue, but what should the next government do? It will have three main levers: increase revenues; reduce spending commitments; and achieve more for less current spending.
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CommentAlan Maynard: axe must swing on NHS jobs and pay
While politicians are fighting on the campaign trail they will not reveal how they intend to drive up productivity. But once reality is restored the pain will begin
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NewsUnion warns on NHS cuts
A union leader is to warn political parties against making cuts in the NHS and pledge to build alliances to fight attacks on the service.
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CommentMedia Watch: NHS managers' pay
Grim reading for managers returning to work on Monday as virtually all the papers ran with a report on managers’ pay increasing faster than nurses’.
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LeaderNHS medics must face the issue of productivity
Trusts are taking tentative steps into the landmine riddled territory of their consultants’ productivity.
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CommentMichael White: the election campaign
How is the election going so far for you? No, don’t answer that if you would rather not. What with that ritual controversy over the relative merit of rival tax hikes, week 1 was quietly unimpressive, although the NHS surfaced in the campaign at the weekend.
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NewsNHS trusts issue wake-up call on consultant productivity
Trusts are challenging senior doctors to spend more time delivering care and to justify hours spent on non-clinical work, in what is being seen as a belated “wake-up call” on consultant productivity.
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CommentNoel Plumridge on the NHS budget
Here’s a summary of the financial plan for the English NHS.
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NewsTrusts providing fewer than 2.5 SPAs or planning tougher evaluations
Trusts with fewer than 2.5 SPAs to 7.5 direct clinical care or where there are plans to review SPAsDetailsTrusts that said they are planning tougher evaluations of SPA time Poole Hospital Foundation Trust The Trust is considering a reduction in SPA to 1.5 up to 1 for Trust ...
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NewsSenior pay: gap narrows in FT board level salary advantage
Board directors at foundation trusts are still leading the “NHS pay league” but the rest of the service is catching up, latest figures have revealed.