All Workforce articles – Page 347
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NewsPrivate providers to share training costs - Lansley
The health secretary has said the private sector should be subject to the “same obligations” regarding education and training as NHS providers.
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HSJ KnowledgeMagical mystery shoppers: driving service improvements with quality feedback
A recent programme of mystery shopping at Trafford Provier Services has become one of the ogranisation’s best value for money approaches to driving high quality feedback. Managing director Mark Brandreth explains.
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NHS Worcestershire finance director joins West Mercia cluster
WORKFORCE: Two directors have been appointed to the new West Mercia “cluster” of primary care trusts.
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Lancashire Care FT aims to make 5 per cent savings in 2011-12
FINANCE: The foundation will aim to make efficiency savings of 5 per cent of its income base in 2011-12, a document outlining its priorities for the year states.
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Medway HCAs among first to pass stoma NVQ
WORKFORCE: The trust has announced that two of its clinical support workers are among the first in the UK to pass a stoma care National Vocational Qualification (NVQ).
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NewsNurses pass vote of no confidence in Lansley
The Royal College of Nursing has overwhelmingly passed a no confidence motion in health secretary Andrew Lansley and the management of the coalition government’s NHS reform programme.
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Heart of England FT appoints executive director for Solihull services
WORKFORCE: Claire Molloy has been appointed as the new executive director of Solihull Healthcare Services.
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NewsAmbulance trust announces 890 post cuts
London Ambulance Service Trust has said it expects to cut 890 posts over the next five years to save £53m.
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NewsReforms could be 'biggest disaster in history' of NHS
The Royal College of Nursing’s chief executive has insisted industrial action must remain an option for nurses and warned that the health reforms could become the “biggest disaster in the history of our public services”.
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Barking, Havering and Redbridge has until Friday to rectify maternity problems
PERFORMANCE: A Care Quality Commission inspection at the acute trust has found some of the equipment necessary for safe care, including devices for monitoring contractions were “unavailable, poorly maintained, or not working”.
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Front line 'must be NHS priority'
Health minister Simon Burns has insisted that the NHS must make frontline services a “priority” as new figures were released by a union showing clinical staff accounting for half of planned job losses in the health service.
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NewsTrusts in royal wedding pay row
More than 100 trusts in England are refusing to give enhanced pay rates to staff who work on the day of the royal wedding later this month, union leaders have complained.
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HSJ Local
Staff cost overspend at Coventry and Warwickshire mental health trust
WORKFORCE: Nursing costs for mental health inpatient wards at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust were overspent by over £1m in February.
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Countess of Chester loses £300,000 to sickness absence in December
WORKFORCE: Sickness absence at the foundation rose by 28 per cent in December to 5 per cent of the workforce, a report to its February board meeting states.
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Wolverhampton City PCT chief exec stands down as reforms kick in
WORKFORCE: Wolverhampton City PCT chief executive Jon Crockett has announced he is retiring to allow the reforms to be “taken forward by people who can commit to leading these changes through.”.
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Tribute to Calderdale FT chair
WORKFORCE: Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust has paid tribute to its chair Sukhdev Sharma, after he died suddenly.
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Alder Hey plans to cut pay bill by £4.7m this year
WORKFORCE: The foundation aims to reduce its spend on pay by £4.7m this year, £4.4m in 2012-13, and £3.8m in 2013-14, a February board report shows.
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NewsParamedics must be safe at major incidents
Paramedics must not be put at risk if the way decisions are made on attending patients at dangerous emergency incidents are altered, ambulance staff have warned.
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NewsAssigning PCT staff to commissioning consortia will be phased
The pace at which primary care trust staff are assigned to commissioning consortia should be determined by local management cost saving targets and the readiness of GPs to take up their new responsibilities.