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CommentClare Gerada: trust is essential for effective leadership
Even when you display personal courage and honesty, you cannot be an effective leader without the trust of your peers and the public, says Clare Gerada.
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NewsOmbudsman seeks wider powers to tackle failure
The health service ombudsman is seeking to broaden the scope of her office’s investigations into complaints about health treatment by probing systemic failings at NHS bodies, HSJ has been told.
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NewsExclusive: new workforce chief promises staff flexibility
Health Education England will give commissioners the freedom required to create flexible workforces that meet their own local needs, its new head has promised in his first interview since being appointed.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to support the leaders of tomorrow
A social network is enabling medical students to gain supported experience in non-clinical environments to boost their leadership skills, write Harpreet Sood, Claire Lemer and Emma Stanton.
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HSJ KnowledgeValuable experience: internships in the healthcare sector
Three students share their experiences of internships within organisations in the healthcare sector.
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CommentNigel Crisp: the most precious commodity of all
On achieving a workforce skill mix to safeguard healthcare.
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NewsJust nine CSS managing directors appointed
Just nine out of the 23 managing director posts for commissioning support services have been recruited, it is announced today.
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NewsSW pay consortium to press ahead with Agenda for Change plans
A consortium of 19 NHS trusts in the South West has met for the first time and agreed to press ahead with plans to break away from Agenda for Change.
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Ex-NHS staff held in payment probe
Two former NHS employees have been arrested by detectives investigating allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials, Scotland Yard said.
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NewsExclusive: Mike Richards given key commissioning board post
Sir Mike Richards has been appointed to a key clinical leader position in the NHS Commissioning Board, HSJ has learned.
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NewsAgenda for Change proposals revealed
Senior staff could be moved out of the Agenda for Change pay framework under proposals devised by NHS Employers, it has emerged.
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NewsReview concludes NMC is failing 'at every level'
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has problems “at every level”, according to a highly critical report into the regulator published today.
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HSJ LocalNew role for Chesterfield Royal director
Andrew Jones, director of facilities at the Chesterfield Royal Hospitals Foundation Trust, has been appointed president of the Association of Healthcare Cleaning Professionals.
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HSJ Local
Pensions problem halts community trust's expansion
A community trust’s bid to run a number of Sure Start centres in Norfolk has been hit by pension complications.
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NewsNew BMA chair elected as future strike decision is put off
A decision on future strike action by the BMA has been deferred until next month as newly elected chair Dr Mark Porter will seek an urgent meeting with the Health Secretary.
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Doctors mull over further industrial action
Doctors will today debate whether to call for another day of industrial action over the government’s controversial pension reforms.
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NewsCommissioning board admits shortage of interest in CSS director jobs
There is a shortage of applicants to run commissioning support services, HSJ has learned, sparking fears that the jobs are proving unattractive to senior NHS managers.
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HSJ KnowledgeExploring attitudes to leadership among ‘grass roots’ doctors
Duncan Bland looks at the findings from nine leadership focus groups that reveal doctors’ definitions of clinical leadership, the skills they believed were important and the potential barriers to and enablers of leadership they perceived in the health system.
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HSJ KnowledgeA framework for nurturing leadership skills in doctor training
Doctors’ postgraduate training is the perfect time to nurture an understanding of the leadership framework, explain Amy Brockbank and her North Western deanery colleagues.
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NewsWould-be candidates excluded from top commissioning board clinical posts
National clinical directors and other likely candidates are being excluded from applying to key posts in the NHS Commissioning Board.