All Workforce articles – Page 241
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HSJ LocalBarts medical director resigns
The medical director at Barts Health Trust has become the latest executive director to leave the trust, HSJ has learned.
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CommentCap locum pay to stop the NHS's primary care bedrock eroding
Demand for GPs has never been higher
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NewsEverington: 'Equal number' of consultants as GPs should sit on CCGs
As many medical consultants as GPs should sit on the governing bodies of their local clinical commissioning groups, a member on HSJ’s Future of NHS Leadership inquiry has said.
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NewsNaylor: The NHS has failed clinical leaders
The NHS has ‘failed’ to encourage clinicians to take up leadership positions, the chair of HSJ’s inquiry into NHS leadership has said.
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SupplementsFuture of NHS Leadership inquiry: Download the full report
Recommendations to reform pay and regulation and increase diversity
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NewsShorter training for doctors 'won't work', says college president
Shortening the training of junior doctors alongside a greater level of generalist training ‘won’t work’, according to the president of the Royal College of Physicians.
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NewsRevealed: NICE safe staffing work cost £1m
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence spent nearly £1m on its work to develop nurse safe staffing guidelines for the NHS, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNICE safe staffing decision not about money, says chief nurse
NHS England chief nursing officer Jane Cummings has said the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence will continue to be used for evidence reviews on safe staffing ‘where appropriate’.
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NewsExclusive: Efficiency rankings must not be 'crude weapon', Carter warns
Lord Carter has warned that the new metric he is developing to rate the productivity of every hospital in England must not be used as a ‘crude weapon’ in trust regulation.
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NewsCarter review sets out plan to save NHS £5bn a year
A law could be introduced to force medical sales representatives to report all financial relationships with hospitals in a bid to drive down NHS procurement costs, a government backed review has said.
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LeaderThe dominance of white men at the very top shames the NHS
It is unacceptable and unsustainable
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HSJ LocalTrust chief speaks out over commissioning 'disaster'
COMMISSIONING: The chief executive of Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has urged the NHS to learn from the commissioning mistakes which led to the collapse of the trust’s dermatology service.
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News'Safe staffing' move took national nurses by surprise
Senior national and regional nursing leaders were taken by surprise by Simon Stevens’ announcement that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s work on safe staffing guidance was to be stopped, it has emerged.
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CommentInnovation: 'Silver bullet' solutions are out and test beds are in
Innovating better value healthcare
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NewsHunt interview: Agency cap needed to correct 'market failure'
Jeremy Hunt has defended his controversial move to cap spending on agency staff. The health secretary said current rates paid by the health service are “not market forces at work, but market failure”.
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NewsFrancis criticises NHS England safe staffing intervention
Sir Robert Francis has expressed serious concerns over NHS England’s decision to suspend the work he recommended to determine safe staffing guidelines.
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HSJ Knowledge'If vanguards work, the return on investment is to the wider NHS'
Interviews with three vanguard trusts