Workforce – Page 472

  • News

    Revealed: what makes doctors go bad

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Ninety per cent of badly performing doctors have a 'learning deficit', new research into their behaviour concludes.

  • News

    Resignation over list controversy

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    One member of staff has resigned and another has been disciplined at a Lincolnshire trust at the centre of waiting list irregularities.

  • News

    Lord Hunt back at DoH in ministerial shake-up

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Former junior health minister Lord Hunt has returned to the Department of Health as a minister of state.

  • Comment

    Media Watch: earnings cap

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    So ministers have 'blundered' again, according to London's Evening Standard. This time it is because they have failed to cap doctors' earnings.

  • News

    Alarm as diabetes jobs are slashed

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    More than a quarter of specialist diabetes nurses say trusts have cut posts and some nurses been made redundant, according to a survey.

  • News

    Preferential pay-off deals protected

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Staff facing the axe under NHS restructuring will be protected from worsened redundancy and retirement terms resulting from new anti-age discrimination laws.

  • Comment

    A different kind of day at the office

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The HSJChallenge offers managers the opportunity to escape their day jobs and pit their wits against their peers in a in a multi-agency health economy with more than its fair share of problems. The good news is that it's not for real. ...

  • News

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Don?t think, Mr or Ms Finance Director, that you can force Ms Hewitt out by hiring some extra doctors or buying a fleet of scanners'

  • Comment

    Noel Pumridge on workforce planning

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Or, in simple terms, why should the NHS pay a nurse in Workington almost as much as a nurse in Wimbledon? She'll only fritter it away anyway.

  • Comment

    How doctors learned to stop worrying and love data

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The NHS has never lacked information, but, says Dr Foster Intelligence's Tim Kelsey, only now are managers and clinicians harnessing its power to change services. Public access is the next big challenge

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Graduated delays

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Government plans to increase the number of primary care mental health workers delivering therapy services have yet to take off, reports Emma Dent

  • Comment

    HSJ debate: So you want to be a director?

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    HSJ 'Managers make a difference' Campaign: Whether it's the art of fostering effective relationships with clinicians, non-executives and politicians or demonstrating empathy with staff, what does the next generation of high-quality managers need? HSJ brought together six chief executives to provide some answers

  • News

    Surgeons slate target culture

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Unions unite to oppose reform pace and lack of consultation

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Staff asked to stay at home as Scarborough accounts come under investigation

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Scarborough and North Yorkshire Healthcare trust chief executive Alison Guy and director of finance Bernard Flynn have been asked to stay at home while the trust board and the local strategic health authority scrutinise accounting procedures.

  • News

    Future of London chief up in the air after Nicholson appointment

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The post of chief executive of the NHS in London could be re-advertised following David Nicholson's appointment as NHS chief executive.

  • News

    SHAs slash training fund for doctors

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Training of doctors is at risk because strategic health authorities cut training budgets by millions of pounds last year, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Conservative Party.

  • News

    Candidate chief Kizer puts application on hold

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    One of the four candidates vying to become chief executive of the NHS is understood to have put his application on hold.

  • News

    Non-executive was unlawfully sacked

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Appointments Commission has admitted unlawfully sacking a non-executive director of a primary care trust who opposed an ill-fated independent treatment centre contract.

  • News

    Scottish MSP calls for mass clearout on senior board

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Scottish health minister has been asked to sack the entire senior management team of NHS Western Isles amid claims that it has descended into farce.