All Workforce articles – Page 316
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NewsFurther votes on pension strike action expected
More public sector workers are to vote on whether to accept the government’s controversial pension reforms.
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NewsCaseload fear emerges in 'inspection' of CQC
Staff working for the Care Quality Commission are demoralised and fear making a mistake because of impossible workloads, a union survey has found.
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NewsUPDATED: Staff keep NHS pensions as Virgin's Surrey deal goes through
Virgin Care has signed a £500m community services contract with NHS Surrey under an arrangement which will see staff employed by a social enterprise.
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NewsBMA warns of first doctor industrial action in decades
The first ballot of doctors on industrial action since 1975 will go ahead within weeks if the government does not rethink the major changes it is making to NHS pensions.
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NewsNicholson: commissioning staff will know job fate by December
Commissioning staff will find out whether they have a place in the new commissioning system, and many will be transferred, by December, NHS Commissioning Board chief executive Sir David Nicholson has announced.
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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 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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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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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.