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SupplementsOrganisation and workforce efficiency - an HSJ special supplement
This week’s bumper 30-page HSJ supplement looks at efficiency in healthcare organisations, including exclusive articles on partnership working, estates management, workforce management and cost reduction, procurement and outsourcing.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to inspire a generation of entrepreneurial leaders in healthcare
A major challenge for commissioners is how to foster clinicians with the potential to become entrepreneurs. Kingsley Manning has some advice.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow managing talent can transform health organisation development
Harnessing the leadership talent among an organisation’s staff can help drive a winning business transformation, as Simon Large and Steve Keyes from Bradford District Care Trust explain.
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Comment
Readers' Letters - 29 March 2012
Why Harry Cayton is wrong on minimum staffing levels, and hardwiring the patient voice into the system
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NewsExclusive: NHS Commissioning Board to appoint all CSS leaders
The NHS Commissioning Board has announced exclusively to HSJ that it will appoint all commissioning support service leaders this spring.
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NewsEnglish nurses more confident in managers than European peers
Despite a high degree of scepticism, nurses in England appear to have more confidence in their managers than their counterparts in other countries, researchers have revealed.
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NewsBudget pledge aims to halt consultant tax loophole
Councils liable for tax, NI, and question mark remains over pensions
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy healthy staff means happier patients
Investing now in staff health and wellbeing has long-term benefits for NHS organisations - not least through reduced sickness absence and greater motivation. We find out how employers can embed this.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe seven habits of emerging medical leaders
A focus group gathered together to identify the most important qualities consistent across successful leaders in medicine. Oliver Warren and Emma Stanton discuss the findings.
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HSJ KnowledgeTackling NHS leadership challenges with talent management
In this austere period, can the NHS afford not to carry out talent management? Martin Powell and colleagues outline their key recommendations.
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NewsTreasury hints at winners and losers under local pay
Local pay bargaining could raise the salaries of staff in regional “hotspots” but parts of the West Midlands, Yorkshire, west Scotland and Wales may lose out, Treasury documents suggest.
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NewsBudget round-up: Osborne heralds tax cuts and local pay rates
Chancellor George Osborne has suggested local pay rates will be introduced for some public sector workers.
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NewsPay freeze fails to prevent trust overspend on wages
The NHS pay freeze has failed to prevent acute hospitals from running up an estimated £300m year-to-date overspend on wage bills, an HSJ investigation has revealed.
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NewsRegional salary gaps evident as George Osborne confirms local pay
HSJ has obtained new evidence of salary disparities within and between regions as the government prepares to introduce local pay rates.
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NewsFewer staff would recommend NHS job
The proportion of NHS staff who would recommend their organisation as a place to work is steadily dropping, latest survey results reveal.
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NewsExclusive: regulator mulls new squad of fixers for most-troubled trusts
Struggling foundation trusts may be forced to take on new Monitor troubleshooters who will advise trust boards and inform the regulator about weak board members, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsNew NHS bodies face recruitment challenge, government told
National bodies being set up as part of the government’s NHS reforms risk being unable to attract good enough leaders due to declining pay, terms and conditions, experts have warned.
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NewsNew England chief nursing officer named
The NHS Commissioning Board has appointed Jane Cummings as its chief nursing officer. Ms Cummings is currently the nursing director for NHS North of England, and previously for NHS North West.
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NewsVoluntary redundancies dominate PCT pay-offs
Two thirds of the cost of paying off primary care trust managers to make early financial savings went on allowing them to retire early or volunteer to leave the NHS.
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NewsTrusts pursue pay curbs for staff sickness
A tribunal decision that forced a trust to stop withholding pay from staff who take too much sick leave has failed to deter other organisations from pursuing similar policies, HSJ has learned.