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Two years after deadline, over half of crisis teams not ready
Fewer than half of England's crisis resolution teams are fully set up, according to a leaked Department of Health report.
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GP contract negotiations stall
An agreement on the general medical services contract is unlikely to be reached in time for the April deadline, NHS Employers has reported.NHS Employers GMS negotiating team chair Dr Barbara Hakin said that she had told the Department of Health that the British Medical Association's GPs committee had made it ...
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New chair of Appointments Commission named
Anne Watts is to be the new chair of the Appointments Commission from 1 April, health secretary Patricia Hewitt has announced. Ms Watts is currently chair of the independent panel on race equality for the NHS. She replaces Sir William Wells.For more information click here
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Draft workforce strategy reveals glut of consultants and shortage of nurses
HSJ reveals the draft NHS pay and workforce strategy for 2007 spending review.
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Workforce plans predict 'bitter opposition' and 'volatility'
The NHS is facing a huge oversupply of consultants and a shortage of thousands of nurses, junior doctors and GPs, a draft government strategy has revealed.
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SHAs told they must plug shortfall of 14,000 nurses
A shortage of more than 14,000 nurses by 2011 could cripple NHS organisations as they struggle to meet patient demand for services.
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DoH response: 'See figures in context' plea
The Department of Health said the figures in the document should be seen in the context of significant staff increases in recent years.
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New grade: BMA backlash expected
Government proposals to reduce a glut of over 3,000 consultants by creating a sub-consultant grade will be 'bitterly opposed' by the British Medical Association, the draft workforce strategy warns.
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Warning over union action on pay
Department of Health senior officials warned of 'a real danger of industrial unrest' if the government set next year's NHS pay award at 2 per cent - just a month before the DoH proposed an even lower figure.
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Plans for consultants 'absurd', says BMA
British Medical Association consultants committee chair Dr Jonathan Fielden has criticised the Department of Health’s draft pay and workforce documents, revealed in HSJtoday. He said: ‘It is absurd to suggest that the NHS in England needs fewer hospital consultants. ‘To suggest that there should be fewer consultants, and of a ...
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DoH plans mark rewriting of relationship with professions
If one image of the dole queue helped finish off Labour in 1979, just imagine what might happen if the jobless wore white coats. The prospect of making large numbers of consultant posts redundant is one rarely articulated in public. That changes this week with HSJrevealing ...
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HR managers must forge new staff model
The pay and workforce draft strategy documents seen by HSJpaint a picture of just how demanding 2007 will be for the human resources profession.
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Two more dates confirmed for Good Management Live
Two new dates have been confirmed for the next set of Good Management Live dates - dealing with the application of lean techniques and with length of stay.
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Preferential pay-off deals protected
Staff facing the axe under NHS restructuring will be protected from worsened redundancy and retirement terms resulting from new anti-age discrimination laws.
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DoH says avoid public health redundancies
The Department of Health has decreed that 'all reasonable steps' should be taken to avoid making primary care trust public health directors redundant to enable the NHS to retain their specialist knowledge.
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Media watch
The paper suggested that any 'sentient being' would be so aghast at the details of the Cornwall report that they would immediately want to turn to the sports pages
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New IHM chief pledges support to managers
The new chief executive of the Institute of Healthcare Management has pledged to make the organisation a strong voice for managers once again.
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NHS Blood and Transplant to cut 400 jobs
Four hundred staff are set to be cut following the closure of three of the country's 10 blood centres and the sale of the only government-owned bio products laboratory.
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Surgeons slate target culture
Workforce planning has been plunged into 'disarray' by 'recent government policies' that show an 'arrogant' disregard of the views of consultants, Royal College of Surgeons president Bernard Ribeiro was due to say yesterday.
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Unions unite to oppose reform pace and lack of consultation
Managers, doctors, nurses, paramedics and porters were set to unite against government NHS reforms this week as their unions met to draw up a collective battle plan.