Workforce – Page 425

  • News

    Trusts fail on race inequalities

    2008-08-21T09:00:00Z

    The Royal College of Nursing's own research reflects the findings of the Race Equality Service Review by the South East Coast BME Network.

  • News

    Positive signs in struggle for race equality

    2008-08-21T09:00:00Z

    HSJ is right to highlight the challenges in getting more staff from black and minority backgrounds into senior management positions. We at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement recognise this and are far from complacent about what the data shows us.

  • Blogs

    Racism in the NHS

    2008-08-21T09:00:00Z

    I read with interest your report on NHS organisations failing on race equality duties. Yet again we have a damning report on the institutional racism that is endemic in the NHS.

  • Comment

    Jon Restell on keeping managers in the NHS

    2008-08-21T09:00:00Z

    Sixty per cent of the people who will make up the NHS workforce in 10 years are already employed in the service. This is the latest fancy dan statistic to drop into any workforce discussion.

  • Comment

    Mark Johnson on outsourcing in the health sector

    2008-08-20T09:00:00Z

    A recent report into the impact, scale and potential of the 'public services industry' - private companies and other organisations that provide services to the government - is very timely.

  • News

    Pharmacists' union to investigate workplace stress

    2008-08-19T11:55:00Z

    The Pharmacists' Defence Association is conducting a work-related stress audit.

  • News

    Spreading the word about NHS careers

    2008-08-19T09:00:00Z

    Taking part in a new careers initiative could help NHS organisations raise their profile among job seekers

  • News

    Regional Darzi reports downplay midwife shortage - RCM

    2008-08-18T12:39:00Z

    A rising birth rate, increasing numbers of complex pregnancies and shortages of midwifery staff mean 610 more midwives are needed in the East of England region, the Royal College of Midwives has said.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Embedding leadership in medical training

    2008-08-18T09:00:00Z

    Medical training must increase its emphasis on leadership skills if the aims of Lord Darzi's review of the health service are to be realised

  • News

    Careers: TGI Monday

    2008-08-18T09:00:00Z

    Jobseekers have ranked healthcare management among the most desirable careers. Louise Hunt finds out why

  • Comment

    Steve Onyett on loosening central control

    2008-08-18T09:00:00Z

    The sociologist Lipsky coined the term 'street level bureaucracy' to highlight the fact that you can't force people to work effectively on something they disagree with.

  • News

    Ethnic minority patients and staff

    2008-08-14T09:00:00Z

    There's something that worries me about the wording of your comment on discrimination. You state: 'If [the NHS] cannot treat its own employees fairly it has no hope of providing ethnic minority patients with the service they have a right to receive'.

  • News

    PCT 'dragons' hunt fresh ideas

    2008-08-14T09:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts are attempting to spice up public health and recruitment initiatives by copying popular TV programmes.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Preparing clinicians for leadership

    2008-08-12T09:00:00Z

    Lord Darzi's review of the NHS emphasises medical leadership as one of the keys to driving up quality in the health service. Oliver Warren describes one programme that is helping to make this a reality

  • News

    Health volunteering in Cambodia - tackling inequalities

    2008-08-12T09:00:00Z

    In the latest of a series on volunteering abroad in the health service, Patricia Sloan talks about the drive to reduce health inequalities in the Cambodian health system

  • HSJ Partners

    Former Health Foundation award holder takes on prosthetics role

    2008-08-12T09:00:00Z

    Former Health Foundation award holder Jane Cumming has been appointed as the first lead consultant physiotherapist for prosthetics in the NHS at South Tees trust.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Stepping up to primary care leadership

    2008-08-12T09:00:00Z

    A leadership development project set up by Bedfordshire primary care trust and the Royal College of Nursing is helping nurses and therapists develop new skills and improve patient care

  • News

    Midwives raise concerns about care quality

    2008-08-11T11:40:00Z

    Midwives are most concerned about the quality of maternity care, staffing levels and low pay, according to a survey by the Royal College of Midwives.

  • News

    Nursing and Midwifery Council head leaves

    2008-08-11T11:28:00Z

    Nursing and Midwifery Council chief executive and registrar Sarah Thewlis has left the organisation.

  • Comment

    David Amos on staff engagement

    2008-08-11T09:00:00Z

    The people of Hounslow, west London, have been impressed by a street cleaner who dances like Michael Jackson. This is either the council chief executive on a back to the floor initiative thinking about how much his contract is worth, or an extremely engaged employee.