Workforce – Page 445

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Career Path: rising to the top

    2008-02-19T09:00:00Z

    Dr Simon Eccles talks to Stuart Shepherd about his path from medical school to a variety of roles in NHS management

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Device offers peace of mind for lone healthcare workers

    2008-02-19T09:00:00Z

    Lone workers at Guy's and St Thomas' foundation trust are using a new security device that allows them to communicate discreetly with a back-up call centre in potentially hazardous situations.

  • News

    Career Path: rising to the top

    2008-02-19T09:00:00Z

    Dr Simon Eccles talks to Stuart Shepherd about his path from medical school to a variety of roles in NHS management

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Device offers peace of mind for lone healthcare workers

    2008-02-19T09:00:00Z

    Lone workers at Guy's and St Thomas' foundation trust are using a new security device that allows them to communicate discreetly with a back-up call centre in potentially hazardous situations.

  • News

    Social care managers working longer hours

    2008-02-18T11:04:42Z

    Eight out of 10 social care managers regularly work more than their contracted hours, a report by the Chartered Management Institute has found.

  • News

    Career changes will turn nurses into 'handmaidens', say unions

    2008-02-18T09:39:45Z

    Nurses will become mere “handmaidens” who lack leadership skills under planned changes to nursing careers, unions have warned. The Department of Health’s consultation on post-registration nursing careers, which ended last Friday, proposed moving away from early specialisation, with nurses instead working in five shorter term “pathways” such as mental health ...

  • Comment

    Neil Goodwin on building working relationships

    2008-02-18T09:00:00Z

    What do teenage children, marriage and friendships have in common when thinking about work? They all offer excellent opportunities for developing relationship skills in the workplace.

  • Comment

    Neil Goodwin on building working relationships

    2008-02-18T09:00:00Z

    What do teenage children, marriage and friendships have in common when thinking about work? They all offer excellent opportunities for developing relationship skills in the workplace.

  • News

    Primary care leaders call GP resistance 'unhelpful'

    2008-02-14T09:00:00Z

    Primary care leaders have joined the argument over extended hours after GPs warned they may refuse to take part in local audits on opening times.

  • News

    Violence increases but training in restraint techniques is still on hold

    2008-02-14T09:00:00Z

    Urgent proposals for dealing with violent patients are still awaiting government funding 10 years after the death that sparked them.HSJ has discovered that a national training scheme for staff in acute mental health wards has been on hold for years, despite fresh evidence of increasing violent behaviour.

  • Comment

    Find the funds to keep violence in check

    2008-02-14T09:00:00Z

    Uniquely among the main care disciplines, mental health services routinely have to manage a triangle of potentially violent relationships: patients attacking staff, patients attacking each other and - when it comes to restraining aggression - staff using force on patients.

  • News

    Half of mental health nurses assaulted, audit reveals

    2008-02-13T12:00:00Z

    More than half of nurses on mental health wards have been physically assaulted at work, according to an audit of violence in mental health services published today.The audit - the second national assessment of its kind - covered more than 200 NHS and independent mental health units and was carried ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Pension changes save employers £430m a year

    2008-02-13T09:00:00Z

    Pension scheme changes that were agreed between NHS Employers and NHS trade unions will save employers £430m a year, according to a government actuary report published in December.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Review of unsocial hours payments

    2008-02-13T09:00:00Z

    The NHS Staff Council is recommending its proposals for a new system of unsocial hours payments to the Department of Health.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Equal pay claims

    2008-02-13T09:00:00Z

    Employers should already be aware that all equal pay claims involving a legal challenge to Agenda for Change have been stayed by order of the Tribunals. This order, however, applies only to the part of the claim involving the challenge to Agenda for Change. Employers should consult with their lawyers ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Allied health professionals and the 18-week target

    2008-02-13T09:00:00Z

    Allied health professionals play a vital role in delivering services to millions of patients, but there is still potential to use their expertise in assessment, diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation to even greater effect.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Allied health professionals and the 18-week target

    2008-02-13T09:00:00Z

    Allied health professionals play a vital role in delivering services to millions of patients, but there is still potential to use their expertise in assessment, diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation to even greater effect.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Review of unsocial hours payments

    2008-02-13T09:00:00Z

    The NHS Staff Council is recommending its proposals for a new system of unsocial hours payments to the Department of Health.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Equal pay claims

    2008-02-13T09:00:00Z

    Employers should already be aware that all equal pay claims involving a legal challenge to Agenda for Change have been stayed by order of the Tribunals. This order, however, applies only to the part of the claim involving the challenge to Agenda for Change. Employers should consult with their lawyers ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Are we all knowledge workers now?

    2008-02-12T09:00:00Z

    I can remember first coming across the term 'knowledge worker' about 10 years ago at a conference and assumed it was the latest management buzzphrase imported from a consultancy or Ivy League professor.