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Letters about NEDs
I write as an non-executive director from a disbanded primary care trust. Seen from here, the appointment process to the new PCTs was a farce.
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Gerry Robinson and the NHS
Management guru Sir Gerry Robinson's televised stint at Rotherham foundation trust to reduce waiting lists might have worked better in a trust that has not already achieved so much to place it on a more business-like footing.
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Report calls for more support for employing disabled people
Employers should be trained in the support available in employing a disabled person, according to the Public Accounts Committee.A report on the Department for Work and Pension's support for disabled people says more flexible employment advice should be given to disabled people, that current service provision is patchy and that ...
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Winners of the Health Foundation Leadership Fellows award scheme
Sixteen healthcare professionals have been selected to join the Health Foundation's prestigious Leadership Fellows award scheme.
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Nurse wins eight-year legal battle
Nurse Gloria Urquhart will receive more than £70,000 from NHS Fife after winning an eight-year legal wrangle following a fall at Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, in 1998. Ms Urquhart fell heavily when a bed moved as she was lifting a patient.Staff had previously reported problems with the beds but it ...
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Leicester chief to go private
Leicestershire Partnership trust chief executive Professor Maggie Cork is to leave the NHS after 20 years to join Four Seasons Health Care as managing director of its Huntercombe Group subsidiary specialised services division for conditions such as mental health and addictions, physical and neurodisabilities, brain injury rehabilitation and children's services.
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Trust chiefs warned on race compliance
The Commission for Racial Equality is going to get tougher on NHS organisations that fail to meet race relations legislation, according to NHS chief executive David Nicholson.He has written to trust chief executives to alert them that the CRE 'will be taking a more proactive stance in exercising their enforcement ...
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Mental health spending must rise, warns Sainsbury Centre
Spending on mental health services should increase by 50 per cent and 38 per cent more staff are needed if the government is to meet 2000's 10-year national service framework plan, according to a report from the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.The report, Delivering ...
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Proper workforce planning needed, says BMA chair
British Medical Association chair James Johnson has called on the government to reinstate proper workforce planning - or risk wasting millions of pounds of public money.Speaking at the BMA's 'State of the NHS' briefing, Mr Johnson said: 'In 2008 the year-on-year significant rise in additional NHS resources will fall back ...
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Exclusive: Minister calls for in-house cleaners
Health minister Andy Burnham is to urge the prime minister to encourage trusts to bring cleaning services back in-house.
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Tories claim government has lost faith in SHAs' control of the workforce
The shadow health secretary has accused the government of losing confidence in the ability of strategic health authorities to manage workforce planning.
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GP contract talks collapse over pay
Talks about next year's GP contract have broken down. The British Medical Association said on Tuesday that the offer made by NHS Employers was 'not sufficient' and called on the doctors and dentists review body to recommend an across-the-board uplift for GPs under next year's contract.
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Non-executives 'hurt and devalued' by appointments process
A large number of chairs and non-executive directors have left the NHS feeling 'bruised, hurt and devalued', a report from the NHS Alliance reveals.
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Two years after deadline, over half of crisis teams not ready
Fewer than half of England's crisis resolution teams are fully set up, according to a leaked Department of Health report.
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GP contract negotiations stall
An agreement on the general medical services contract is unlikely to be reached in time for the April deadline, NHS Employers has reported.NHS Employers GMS negotiating team chair Dr Barbara Hakin said that she had told the Department of Health that the British Medical Association's GPs committee had made it ...
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New chair of Appointments Commission named
Anne Watts is to be the new chair of the Appointments Commission from 1 April, health secretary Patricia Hewitt has announced. Ms Watts is currently chair of the independent panel on race equality for the NHS. She replaces Sir William Wells.For more information click here
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Draft workforce strategy reveals glut of consultants and shortage of nurses
HSJ reveals the draft NHS pay and workforce strategy for 2007 spending review.
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Workforce plans predict 'bitter opposition' and 'volatility'
The NHS is facing a huge oversupply of consultants and a shortage of thousands of nurses, junior doctors and GPs, a draft government strategy has revealed.
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SHAs told they must plug shortfall of 14,000 nurses
A shortage of more than 14,000 nurses by 2011 could cripple NHS organisations as they struggle to meet patient demand for services.
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DoH response: 'See figures in context' plea
The Department of Health said the figures in the document should be seen in the context of significant staff increases in recent years.