Workforce – Page 421
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HSJ Knowledge
Skills for Health unveils workforce planning tool
Workforce planners in the health sector have another tool to help them make the recruitment, retention and organisation of staff easier and more sustainable.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS infection control: a clean bill of health
Last October Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust was the subject of sensational headlines over deadly superbug outbreaks. A year on, under a new chief executive, it is being transformed from ward to board
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Comment
Jenny Rogers on personal responsibility
The kind of client that all executive coaches adore is the high flier who is totally up for learning: cheerful and realistic about themselves.
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health and the NHS workforce
There is much value in bringing people who have used mental health services into the NHS team, says Alastair Henderson
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS staff 'should be thinking differently'
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has released an introductory guide to encourage more creative thinking in clinical and managerial staff at all levels of healthcare.
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News
Health unions seek assurance over regulation
Unions are seeking an urgent meeting with ministers to discuss plans to register a wider range of workers with the Independent Safeguarding Authority.
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Mid Staffs takes positive action over A&E staff levels
Mid Staffordshire foundation trust has 'responded positively' to Healthcare Commission concerns over Stafford Hospital's accident and emergency department.
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Complaints staff desert Healthcare Commission
The Healthcare Commission is struggling to cope with the hundreds of complaints it receives each month from patients as staff desert the watchdog ahead of next year's regulation changes.
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Comment
Media Watch: cabinet reshuffle
What's in a name? Plenty according to the papers, which were this weekend reporting that a crop of senior ministers including health secretary Alan Johnson are determined to hang on to their titles in the event of a reshuffle.
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Comment
Peter Reader on medical revalidation
As a GP, it seems to me that I have been waiting for a significant chunk of my active medical career for revalidation to finally happen, and I am not that fresh off the starting blocks.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS apprentices - as seen on TV
In an NHS scheme inspired by The Apprentice, 12 candidates competed for a management trainee post. Is this the future of recruitment?
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Comment
Ken Jarrold on public sector economics
The clouds of economic doom have gathered. When a sober chancellor tells you it is the worst situation for 60 years, it is time to take notice.
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HSJ Knowledge
Allied health professionals and clinical leadership
All health professionals - not just doctors - need to embrace clinical leadership if Lord Darzi's vision for the NHS is to be realised. Roland Petchey explains allied health professionals' role in driving change
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HSJ Knowledge
Hatching a new breed of NHS executive
Despite signs the NHS is now taking leadership development seriously in the wake of the next stage review, SHAs will have to challenge current thinking if they are to create a cultural change
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News
Dr Foster Intelligence sheds 10 jobs
Healthcare information provider Dr Foster Intelligence has made 10 redundancies as part of an ongoing shake-up.
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News
Unregistered NHS trusts to pay out under immigration shake-up
Dozens of trusts face compensation payouts and a temporary ban on recruiting overseas staff because they are not on an official Home Office immigration register.
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News
Prizes for world class commissioning winners
Primary care trusts that are successful in world class commissioning may win the right to name the salaries of their senior managers and non-executive directors.
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Comment
Noel Plumridge on a family's care crisis
On Friday morning, Mum was readmitted to hospital. She is 85 years old and vulnerable to infections, with a provisional diagnosis of leukaemia.
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HSJ Partners
Paul Allen on the war for NHS talent
First the bad news. According to the chancellor of the exchequer, this country is experiencing the harshest economic conditions in 60 years. On a more upbeat note, GCSE and A-level results are at an all-time high and more young people than ever are going into higher education.
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Comment
John Coakley on the quest for medical leadership
There seems to be an increasing demand for clinical, and in particular medical, leadership. Lord Darzi's next stage review recommendations and the reviews of healthcare being conducted across strategic health authorities will not work without it.