Workforce – Page 91
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NewsTest and Trace cuts 8,000 posts
The government’s Test and Trace service is cutting around 8,000 workers as covid cases continue to decline from the January peak, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMore than nine in 10 of CCG’s staff give it their approval
More than 95 per cent of staff at one clinical commissioning group would recommend it as a place to work – but one newly-formed organisation would be recommended by well under half its staff, according to NHS staff survey results.
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NewsRevealed: Trusts with the worst levels of discrimination for minority ethnic staff
The acute trusts with the highest and lowest proportions of minority ethnic staff who told the NHS staff survey they had experienced discrimination from colleagues or managers can be revealed today.
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NewsControversial subsidiary plan dropped by trust after union campaign
A hospital trust has dropped its plans to set up a wholly owned subsidiary after two years of campaigning against it by unions.
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Doctors could qualify without doing traditional degree course under HEE ‘apprenticeship’ plan
Health Education England is in the early stages of developing an apprenticeship programme for doctors as part of plans to improve access to medical training, HSJ has discovered.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: What the staff survey said about quality and safety
HSJ’ s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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CommentHow to better help children needing mental healthcare in acute trusts
Unless the CQC adopts some kind of bare minimum mental health staffing level measure, we will continue to fail children, young people and families in acute trusts. By Dr Virginia Davies
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NewsGPs can ‘opt out’ of vaccine effort or move into shopping centres
GP practices providing covid vaccinations have been asked to decide by next week if they want to drop out as the programme moves on to adults under 50, and urged to ‘carefully consider’ whether they can do the vaccinations as ‘business as usual’ begins to ramp up.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Stressed out but feeling positive - what covid did to NHS staff
This week has seen the publication of not one but two huge sets of data: the biggest workforce survey in the world and the latest NHS performance stats – and we’ve crunched them both.
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NewsAmbulance and community staff grew more positive about their trusts in 2020
Most ambulance, community and specialist trusts saw an increase in the proportion of their staff recommending the organisation as a place to work during 2020.
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NewsOnly two mental health trusts see fall in key staff survey score
Just 4 per cent of mental health trusts have had a reduction in the proportion of staff recommending their organisation as a place to work.
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NewsRevealed: which acute trusts performed best and worst in 2020 staff survey
HSJ analysis has revealed which acute trusts have returned the strongest and weakest performance in the annual NHS staff survey — and which have seen the greatest change.
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NewsHalf of staff who cared for covid patients suffered stress-related illness, national survey reveals
Significantly more NHS staff reported feeling unwell as a result of work-related stress in 2020 — a shift very likely due to covid-19, and more marked among those whose work had been heavily shaped by the pandemic.
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NewsExperience of minority ethnic staff gets worse across range of key indicators
The latest NHS staff survey results suggest a significant increase in minority ethnic workers experiencing discrimination from their manager or colleagues, while showing white staff were far less likely to have been deployed on covid wards.
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NewsStevens seeks assurance that Adler and Traynor will be investigated should they ‘re-emerge’
NHS England will seek assurance from the Care Quality Commission that the former chief executive and finance director of University Hospitals of Leicester Trust will be scrutinised under the fit and proper persons test should they “re-emerge” in the NHS.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: What I’d want to know if I was an MP
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsWhistleblowers flag ‘toxic management’ within maternity service
Former staff at a Midlands acute trust have raised concerns over a ‘toxic management culture’ and ‘unsafe’ staffing levels within its maternity services, HSJ has learned.
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NewsDHSC acts over low staff take-up of covid life assurance
The Department of Health and Social Care is writing to NHS organisations where staff have died from covid in a bid to increase uptake of its life assurance scheme.
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NewsCandidates given a week to apply for chair’s role at new National Institute for Health Protection
The government has given candidates just a week to apply to become the chair of its new National Institute for Health Protection, and has said the successful applicant must have ‘an understanding of the pivotal role [of] NHS Test and Trace’.
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CommentWorkforce planning is complexity squared
We need a twin track approach in workforce planning – one for the medium-term and other for the long-term. By Rob Smith