All Workforce articles – Page 254
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NewsExclusive: New health committee chair Sarah Wollaston's first interview
The new chair of the Commons health committee has named whistleblowing, patient safety and the safeguarding of patient records as key areas of attention for the committee under her stewardship, she told HSJ.
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NewsCourt rules doctors must consult patients over resuscitation orders
BREAKING: Patients have a new legal right to be consulted before doctors place ‘do not attempt resuscitation’ orders in their notes
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HSJ Local
Extra community nurses for Staffordshire
WORKFORCE: Sixty nine community nurses have been recruited to work in North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.
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NewsExclusive: Extra cash must be put into nurse training schemes, says Lord Willis
NHS Employers should plough greater resources into in work training schemes for the nursing workforce, the head of a major review of the profession’s education and training has said.
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NewsExecutive pay rises under fire from Royal College of Nursing
Nurses have attacked rising pay for senior executives by drawing a comparison with the earnings squeeze of frontline staff.
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CommentRun community hospitals as social enterprises and save the NHS millions
A culture driving change
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NewsPlans for nurse staffing data unclear
NHS England has still not worked out how to present trusts’ nurse staffing data on NHS Choices, less than two weeks before it is due to publish the information for the first time.
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HEE 'undervalues' the role of doctors
Health Education England has been accused of undervaluing the role doctors play in the wider NHS after it revealed plans to switch funding to non-medical roles.
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NewsWilful neglect offence to become law by 2015
Wilful neglect could become a criminal offence next year after the government last night tabled amendments to the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill.
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NewsBurnham: Mid Staffs is being used to drive privatisation
The government is using the Mid Staffordshire scandal to soften up the NHS for privatisation, the shadow health secretary has said
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NewsNew scheme to help educate NHS on genetic medicine
Health Education England has revealed a multimillion pound project to prepare the NHS workforce for the advent of healthcare based on advances in genetic medicine.
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CommentTake staff support seriously with Schwartz rounds
Rounds make unbearable aspects of care giving bearable
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NewsBack to work scheme for GPs to be drawn up
BREAKING: Health Education England is planning a back to work scheme for GPs to help them return to the NHS.
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Exclusive: Staff mileage rate cut by nearly 20pc
The rate NHS staff can claim for travel expenses is to be reduced by almost 20 per cent, which NHS Employers estimates would save the service £20m annually, HSJ has learned.
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SupplementsHSJ Top Chief Executives: Capturing the zest of the best
How their characteristics mark out these individuals
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NewsStuart Rose tells NHS leaders: 'Always remember patients come first'
Sir Stuart Rose has told NHS Confederation conference delegates his report on leadership in the NHS will offer “practical and positive” recommendations.
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NewsExclusive: Trusts plan to withhold incremental pay rises
One in three NHS organisations intend to tame their salary bills by withholding pay increments from staff, a survey of senior HR managers indicates.
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CommentHR barometer: Debate is hard when the goalposts move
But HR team are rising to the challenge
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NewsOverseas recruitment of nurses to rise amid fears over shortages
The majority of HR directors plan to ramp up the recruitment of nurses this year as many admit their organisations lack the staff to meet demand.
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HSJ LocalEast of England Ambulance plans workforce upskill
WORKFORCE: The troubled East of England Ambulance Service Trust is planning a significant shake up of its workforce.