Workforce – Page 444

  • News

    Candidates will need a 'cross-NHS view'

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    NHS Confederation trustees were due to meet this week to begin discussing recruitment for the position vacated by Gill Morgan.

  • Comment

    Lousy singer, great lobbyist - Morgan is a tough act to follow

    2008-02-27T17:30:26Z

    As the tributes pour in for Gill Morgan following the announcement that she is to leave the NHS Confederation, it is clear not only how well liked and respected she is, but also how far she has taken the organisation in six years.

  • News

    Staff sacked after offensive image probe

    2008-02-27T15:09:37Z

    A foundation trust has sacked 13 staff and disciplined 28 others after an eight-month investigation into offensive images that were sent by email around its hospitals.Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals foundation trust is still investigating 10 staff members.

  • News

    Doctor contract ballot launched

    2008-02-26T11:53:01Z

    The British Medical Association has opened a ballot of staff and associate-grade (SAS) doctors on a proposed NHS contract.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    A check-up for nurses

    2008-02-26T09:00:00Z

    A new campaign is encouraging health workers to focus on their own lives for a change. Rosemary Cook explains the ambitions of Nursing No.1

  • HSJ Knowledge

    A check-up for nurses

    2008-02-26T09:00:00Z

    A new campaign is encouraging health workers to focus on their own lives for a change. Rosemary Cook explains the ambitions of Nursing No.1

  • HSJ Knowledge

    The risky business of ignorance

    2008-02-26T09:00:00Z

    A new report suggests that organisations in the health sector have a misplaced confidence about their ability to cope with uncertainty and change

  • News

    Johnson announces midwives drive

    2008-02-25T10:55:28Z

    Health secretary Alan Johnson has announced a package of measures to recruit an extra 4,000 midwives to the NHS over the next three years.As part of the recruitment drive, the Department of Health and the Royal College of Midwives will launch a Return to Practice campaign in the summer, with ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Ali Mohammed on the makings of morale

    2008-02-25T09:00:00Z

    Who might have said the following: 'It's a dead-end job', 'I'm bored out of my skull' and 'This place sucks'?

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Learning to be unloved

    2008-02-25T09:00:00Z

    In the second article in our series on coaching, Isobel Gowan describes her work with a GP who is new to leadership

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Learning curves

    2008-02-21T16:16:00Z

    HSJ's L&D supplement discusses different aspects of training the workforce for 2020.

  • News

    New pilot to help GPs in distress

    2008-02-21T11:59:08Z

    Health secretary Alan Johnson has announced plans to launch a pilot support service for doctors suffering from mental health and addiction problems.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Steve Onyett on Paxman's pants

    2008-02-21T09:00:00Z

    While "pants" is a term of derision in the vernacular of youth, Jeremy Paxman's exchange last month with Marks & Spencer chief executive Sir Stuart Rose has done the men of our nation a service by highlighting the importance of being supported in all the right places.This is not the ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    GPs must see sense on hours

    2008-02-21T09:00:00Z

    New proposals for extended working hours for GPs have provoked a storm of protest - but doctors should take a careful look at the benefits, argues Alastair Henderson

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Who cares for the carers?

    2008-02-21T09:00:00Z

    People caring for a relative are a vital part of the health and social care system - but many feel isolated. A national strategy aims to help by making GPs and community services more carer friendly. Stuart Shepherd reports

  • Comment

    Jon Restell on looking after managers

    2008-02-21T09:00:00Z

    Managers in healthcare need to do more than ever to look after their staff. I don't have a problem with this; it's the right thing to be doing.

  • News

    Act now to avoid crisis, says RCN

    2008-02-21T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health must recognise the need to train thousands more nurses now to meet 'unprecedented' demand by 2030, the Royal College of Nursing has warned.

  • News

    Johnson irks committee as he ducks careers queries

    2008-02-21T09:00:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Johnson has rankled MPs by refusing to answer questions at a health select committee inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers.Mr Johnson batted off a series of questions about junior doctors' training, saying he could not comment before the Department of Health's formal response to the Tooke report.

  • Comment

    Foreign bodies

    2008-02-20T15:17:19Z

    When discussing sensitive issues such as migrant healthcare professionals, our choice of language is paramount. So I must point out that an item in HSJ speaking of 'overseas' doctors (in brief, page 6, 14 February) is misleading.

  • Comment

    Ronny Flynn on righting racial inequalities

    2008-02-20T09:00:00Z

    Frontline staff and managers' skills in engaging with and using evidence are essential to promoting race equality in health services. Britain prides itself on its open access to healthcare and the quality of its prevention and treatment of illness.