Workforce – Page 419

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    Roll out, roll out

    2008-11-06T09:00:00Z

    With services in the community going 'productive' in summer 2009, Nigel Hopps looks forward both to the opportunities and the challenges this presents

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    Winds of change

    2008-11-06T09:00:00Z

    An exciting new role is beginning to take shape: people and organisations that can exemplify productive practice and guide others

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    'This is a phenomenon'

    2008-11-06T09:00:00Z

    The NHS has seen countless initiatives but the Productive Ward seems different - in the sheer enthusiasm it provokes, the refreshing lack of jargon and the way it was developed from the bottom up. Stuart Shepherd explains

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    Whole lotta shake-up

    2008-11-06T09:00:00Z

    They have succeeded on individual wards, but are trusts in Nottingham and Manchester up to the bigger challenge of transforming whole hospitals, asks Stuart Shepherd

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    Far and wide

    2008-11-06T09:00:00Z

    The principles of Productive Ward are now being applied in community hospitals and mental health wards. But will the programme succeed outside its original context, asks Ingrid Torjesen

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    Making time fly

    2008-11-06T09:00:00Z

    Emails, meetings, sorting out that pile of paper: Jennifer Taylor looks at how the Productive Leader programme helps you cut tasks down to size

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    Health service staff security

    2008-11-01T01:00:00Z

    All NHS staff deserve to work without fear of violence or abuse. New security specialists are helping to provide vital local support

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    NHS staff engagement

    2008-11-01T01:00:00Z

    Involving the whole NHS workforce in improvement means asking their opinion and responding to feedback. Alastair Henderson puts the business case for staff inclusion

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    Alastair Henderson on the NHS staff survey

    2008-11-01T01:00:00Z

    The largest of its kind, the NHS staff survey last year captured the feelings of 156,000 employees from all 391 trusts in England.

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    Steve Barnett on world class NHS leaders

    2008-11-01T01:00:00Z

    It is not hard to think of bad leaders. A recent poll named figures from Stalin to Vlad the Impaler who score badly in the popularity stakes, while Steve McClaren, 'the wally with the brolly', springs to my mind.

  • News

    NHS Wales chief executive to step down

    2008-10-30T11:43:00Z

    NHS Wales chief executive Ann Lloyd has announced she will step down after eight years in the post.

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    South Essex Partnership foundation trust secures university status

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    A mental health trust has fought ‘discrimination’ to become the first community-based NHS organisation to gain university trust status.

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    National NHS pay deal criticised

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    Nationally negotiated pay means commissioners' hands are tied from using bigger salaries to attract more good doctors, the Commons health select committee was told last week.

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    Manchester mental health chief launches dismissal claim

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    A trust chief executive who triggered weeks of strike action after sacking a trade union official has launched an unfair dismissal claim.Manchester Mental Health and Social Care trust's former chief Sheila Foley resigned in July, the day after a report, commissioned by NHS North West, criticised frequent changes of management ...

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    Managers' union calls on DH to 'rip up' pay scheme

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    The pay scheme for very senior NHS managers undermines the effort going into world class commissioning and should be 'ripped up', officials are being told.

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    Surviving the economic crisis

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    It was interesting to hear senior human resources figures from British Airways and Legal and General at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development annual conference. They were clear that the only way for organisations to survive the economic crisis is for unions and employers to work towards a common ...

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    World class care takes a team

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    The NHS is truly world class in many aspects of its clinical work but the outcome figures of a brilliant surgeon are undermined without the rest of the NHS team, who provide essential theatre cleaning, nursing and ward management. A patient-led NHS has to recognise all the worth behind the ...

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    NHS Employers urges against reopening pay negotiations

    2008-10-29T11:57:00Z

    Employers have urged the NHS pay review body to stick with its three-year pay settlement.

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    Encouraging healthy eating among NHS staff

    2008-10-29T09:00:00Z

    A new project focusing on nutrition and healthy eating is setting out to change the dietary habits of NHS employees

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    Richard Knowles on NHS command and control

    2008-10-29T09:00:00Z

    Command and control is a term that is increasingly used in the current target-driven healthcare climate.