All Workforce articles – Page 119
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CommentWe need a workforce fit for the needs of those living with chronic cancer
Policy makers should keep the increasing population with treatable but not curable cancer in mind and ensure there is a clear plan to grow and fund a cancer workforce fit for the future, exhorts Lynda Thomas
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NewsCQC staff lose 26,000 work hours to IT issues
Care Quality Commission staff claim they have lost more than 26,000 work hours due to IT issues in the space of a year.
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NewsFT’s staff survey raised major concerns ahead of chief quitting
Staff at a foundation trust raised concerns in a survey about discrimination and safety reporting, shortly before its chief executive quit blaming the “financial and regulatory environment”.
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NewsTrust drops controversial subsidiary plans after new CEO joins
A teaching trust has scrapped controversial plans to set up a subsidiary company — a move which campaigners hailed as “extremely good news” for NHS staff.
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NewsSecond NHS manager re-employed shortly after redundancy
An NHS manager who left with a £200,000 redundancy package returned to work two months later as a consultant with NHS England.
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CommentDefining the professional NHS manager
Once NHS managers are framed properly as a profession, the doctor, the regulator, the media and the politician might have less excuse to target them. By
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NewsTories vow to curb NHS competition by March
Compulsory competition would largely be removed from the NHS and the law changed to give integrated care systems more formal powers within three months of a new Conservative government taking power, the party has said.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: All change at HEE
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night — and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping ...
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NewsLib Dems pledge extra £7bn a year for health funded by tax rise
The Liberal Democrats have set out their manifesto pledges on the health and social care system, which they say “are in a state of crisis”.
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NewsRegulator plans greater oversight of local investigations
The General Medical Council is planning to work more closely with NHS trusts and other organisations on how they investigate staff conduct locally.
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HSJ LocalEast Midlands trust appoints new medical director
Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed a new medical director, it has announced.
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Revealed: Third of trusts do not have clinical technology lead
A third of trusts are yet to appoint a chief clinical information officer, HSJ has found.
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NewsTwo in five trusts failing Hancock’s leadership target
Two in five trusts have told HSJ they do not have a director with IT responsibility on their board, prompting health secretary Matt Hancock to renew calls for every trust to do so.
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NewsHEE chief to step down after eight years
Health Education England’s chief executive has announced he is leaving the education and training provider at the end of next March.
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NewsNHSE and government agree ‘stopgap solution’ to pensions crisis
NHS England is set to outline a major policy change agreed with government which they hope will act as a short-term solution to the NHS pensions crisis.
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CommentInfection prevention is not just the job of the NHS
“Home growing” staff is the key to an integrated infection prevention strategy, writes Liz Grogan
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CommentMental health ‘at risk of being crowded out’ during election debate
Attention-seeking parties competing in the general election will priortise some, but not all, aspects of health and social care, writes Paul Burstow.
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NewsCelebrated trust rethinks subsidiary plans amid strike action
An acute trust may abandon its plans to set up a wholly owned subsidiary in the face of union opposition.
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LeaderWhat if the doctors never come back?
A ‘black swan’ event is defined as an “extremely rare event with severe consequences” which is rarely predicted and whose impact is heightened by its sheer unexpectedness.
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NewsSenior ICS leader to step down and ‘swim Alcatraz’
A senior leader within the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West integrated care system has announced she will step down from her roles next year.