Workforce – Page 443

  • Comment

    Surgeons are safe

    2008-03-06T09:00:00Z

    I am extremely disappointed that HSJ chose to print the accusation regarding patient safety and the certification of doctors for the specialist register, writes Paul Streets

  • Comment

    Occupational health doctors get people back to work

    2008-03-06T09:00:00Z

    The British Medical Association is right to say that GPs alone cannot reduce employee absence due to ill health (news, page 8, 21 February). Occupational health doctors are specialists trained to work with employees and employers, to rehabilitate people back into work, writes Gordon Parker

  • News

    Diabetes nurses could save £100m, study claims

    2008-03-05T11:05:00Z

    Specialist diabetes nurses could save the NHS £100m by reducing the number of people admitted to hospital, a new study claims.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    How to upskill your workforce

    2008-03-05T09:00:00Z

    Upskilling the existing healthcare workforce is a way to improve services and enhance career progression, writes Tess Green

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Looking for the latest leaders for change

    2008-03-04T09:00:00Z

    Applications for round six of the Health Foundation's Leaders for Change programme are open.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Building organisational trust in the health service

    2008-03-04T09:00:00Z

    Even the best managers might find that their staff's sense of trust is dictated by factors outside their control, says Blair McPherson

  • News

    A third of nurses face violence at work, study shows

    2008-03-03T11:36:00Z

    Research showing UK nurses suffer some of the worst violence in Europe is shocking and shameful, public services union Unison has said.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    NHS chaplaincy: a spirited row

    2008-03-03T09:00:00Z

    Chaplaincy is making its case to become a commissioned NHS service. Daloni Carlisle reports

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Why are there so few BME managers?

    2008-03-03T09:00:00Z

    With the vast majority of senior NHS managers classed as white, why are there still so few from black and minority ethnic backgrounds? Charlotte Santry reports

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Jenny Rogers on embarrassing emails

    2008-03-03T09:00:00Z

    About 25 years ago on a management development course I was taken to visit Hewlett Packard.

  • News

    Unison calls for more cleaners

    2008-02-29T13:39:27Z

    Trade union Unison has called for a recruitment drive for NHS cleaners to raise hospital cleaning standards.

  • News

    Confed responds to NAO report

    2008-02-29T13:18:26Z

    Commenting on yesterday's NAO report on the GP contract, NHS Confederation primary care trust network director David Stout said: 'The work of PCTs in world class commissioning recognises the need to make better use of contractual levers to improve the commissioning of general practice and develop a range of skills ...

  • News

    Johnson gives feedback on MMC inquiry

    2008-02-29T13:11:46Z

    Health secretary Alan Johnson has responded to the independent inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers led by Professor Sir John Tooke.

  • News

    Leaked memo reveals national locum shortage

    2008-02-29T09:00:00Z

    Leaked Department of Health documents have revealed a national shortage of locum hospital doctors, with some trusts reporting they are 'lucky if applicants attend for interview'. HSJ first highlighted the issue last year and as recently as 14 February the DH was insisting there is no evidence of a widespread ...

  • Comment

    Simon Stevens on local pay and national prices

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    When doctors everywhere are being urged to become more evidence based in their clinical practice, a standard retort is that health policy makers should do the same.

  • News

    Department plays down medic supply fears

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has tried to dampen fears that the NHS faces a drop in the supply of European labour, which experts say could lead to doctor shortages.

  • News

    Eleventh-hour changes to GP contract left PCTs with bill

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    The introduction of the new GP contract led to a 57 per cent increase in payments to practices in just three years, the National Audit Office has found. The huge increase was fuelled by a last-minute concession to the British Medical Association that sidelined the government's own priority to tackle ...

  • News

    'Dangerous' surgeons being put on specialist register

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    Doctors deemed to be a danger to patients are being put on the specialist register and permitted to work as consultant surgeons, HSJ has learnt.

  • News

    Trust reveals price of advice on chief's payout

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust has revealed it spent nearly £23,000 on legal advice over the severance payment to its former chief executive Rose Gibb.

  • News

    Morgan leaves Confed for Wales

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    Managers have paid tribute to Gill Morgan, who is leaving the NHS Confederation to head the civil service in Wales.