Workforce – Page 483
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HR managers must forge new staff model
The pay and workforce draft strategy documents seen by HSJpaint a picture of just how demanding 2007 will be for the human resources profession.
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HSJ Knowledge
Two more dates confirmed for Good Management Live
Two new dates have been confirmed for the next set of Good Management Live dates - dealing with the application of lean techniques and with length of stay.
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News
Preferential pay-off deals protected
Staff facing the axe under NHS restructuring will be protected from worsened redundancy and retirement terms resulting from new anti-age discrimination laws.
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DoH says avoid public health redundancies
The Department of Health has decreed that 'all reasonable steps' should be taken to avoid making primary care trust public health directors redundant to enable the NHS to retain their specialist knowledge.
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Media watch
The paper suggested that any 'sentient being' would be so aghast at the details of the Cornwall report that they would immediately want to turn to the sports pages
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New IHM chief pledges support to managers
The new chief executive of the Institute of Healthcare Management has pledged to make the organisation a strong voice for managers once again.
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NHS Blood and Transplant to cut 400 jobs
Four hundred staff are set to be cut following the closure of three of the country's 10 blood centres and the sale of the only government-owned bio products laboratory.
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Surgeons slate target culture
Workforce planning has been plunged into 'disarray' by 'recent government policies' that show an 'arrogant' disregard of the views of consultants, Royal College of Surgeons president Bernard Ribeiro was due to say yesterday.
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Unions unite to oppose reform pace and lack of consultation
Managers, doctors, nurses, paramedics and porters were set to unite against government NHS reforms this week as their unions met to draw up a collective battle plan.
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Staff asked to stay at home as Scarborough accounts come under investigation
Scarborough and North Yorkshire Healthcare trust chief executive Alison Guy and director of finance Bernard Flynn have been asked to stay at home while the trust board and the local strategic health authority scrutinise accounting procedures.
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Future of London chief up in the air after Nicholson appointment
The post of chief executive of the NHS in London could be re-advertised following David Nicholson's appointment as NHS chief executive.
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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.
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Candidate chief Kizer puts application on hold
One of the four candidates vying to become chief executive of the NHS is understood to have put his application on hold.
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Non-executive was unlawfully sacked
The Appointments Commission has admitted unlawfully sacking a non-executive director of a primary care trust who opposed an ill-fated independent treatment centre contract.
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Scottish MSP calls for mass clearout on senior board
The Scottish health minister has been asked to sack the entire senior management team of NHS Western Isles amid claims that it has descended into farce.
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Media watch
The NHS entered the debate about What Not to Wearthis week as the Daily Expresstrumpeted: 'The veil is banned in hospitals.' The paper revealed 'details of the purge of faceless medics' at Birmingham University's school of medicine. Students are allowed to cover ...
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Half of new nurses out of work
Almost half of newly qualified nurses have not been able to find jobs this year, MPs heard last week.
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It's the Richard list as IT boss tops survey
The man in charge of the review of the health service's IT systems is the highest-paid person in the NHS.
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Non-execs step down from troubled trust
Three non-executive directors have stepped down at a trust beset with financial problems and controversy over possible service changes.
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Media watch
Another week and another revelation about the Department of Health's troubled IT programme, this time from a very unlikely source.