Workforce – Page 474
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Pressure group celebrates MTAS legal ruling
Pressure group Remedy UK is claiming a 'mild victory' following a judicial review into the medical training and application system.
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Trust offers 6,000 staff voluntary redundancy
Wage slips received last week by almost 6,000 staff at County Durham and Darlington foundation trust also included a letter offering them voluntary severance deals.
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Warner rebuffs diversity slur on SHA chairs
Health minister Lord Warner has denied that the appointment of eight male chairs and only one woman to the new strategic health authorities is unrepresentative.
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How the push for local choice in childbirth is foundering
Despite national pledges to provide women with a range of local options, choice in maternity services has largely failed to materialise. Alison Moore investigates how local organisations? decisions to close units are flying in the face of national policy
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Hurt as chiefs fail to make the grade
NHS Employers has moved to defend the selection process for primary care trust chief executives after rumours of upset circulated in the service last week.
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Appointments Commission chief maintains PCT chair selection effective and fun
Roger Moore, chief executive of the Appointments Commission, has defended its approach to the process of selection of chairs for the reconfigured primary care trusts in England, the first tranche of which were announced this week.
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Laura Donnelly on the art of delegation
'If ministers want a decent view, they need to stand back'
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Race commission blasts NHS organisations' 'lack of leadership'
The Commission for Racial Equality has accused NHS organisations of showing a 'lack of leadership' in promoting race equality.
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New push to engage with staff on reform
The government is creating an advisory group to 'provide strategic advice' on reform of the health and social care system.
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Surrey social enterprise prepares for launch
England's largest so-called 'social enterprise' offering healthcare services will launch in shadow form on 1 August.
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Laura Donnelly on primary care leaders
One argument is that new strategic health authority chief executives, keen to assert authority and be seen to do so, are indulging in an exercise otherwise known as 'don't think much of yours?'
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Your Humble Servant: the new SHA
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Strategic hip authority
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Barometer: mental health September 2006
Mental health chief executives surveyed for Barometer report high levels of confidence on recruitment of medical, nursing and therapy staff.
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on clinical engagement
'A meeting of minds gets enormous impetus when the fog of data is converted into information'
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Skilled analysts of little use to the NHS
Do external consultants working in NHS organisations really deliver the goods? Birmingham University's Jonathan Shapiro argues that they may know how to diagnose problems, but cultural signposts pass them by
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Media Watch: earnings cap
So ministers have 'blundered' again, according to London's Evening Standard. This time it is because they have failed to cap doctors' earnings.
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Health unions back findings
Chief executives' views mirror closely what Royal College of Nursing and Unison members are saying about the NHS reforms, say the unions' leaders.
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Michael White: change in the NHS
We were standing on the edge of my local swimming pool discussing the inevitability of change when a fellow wrinklie walked past, saying: 'Don't talk to me about change. I work for the NHS and whenever I hear that word I just switch off.'
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Anti-sexism guide
The Department of Health and NHS Employers have published best practice guidance on how NHS organisations can develop a gender equality scheme. Trusts will need to comply with a new gender equality duty in April. This requires public sector organisations to show that they treat male and female employees and ...
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on succession planning
My nine-year-old son was recruited this season to the local football league club's centre of excellence. His coaches exude knowledge, enthusiasm and a remarkable commitment to a part-time, barely rewarded, role. They spend much of their spare time watching local junior league matches. They also handle representations from ambitious parents, ...