All Workforce articles – Page 363
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News
FTs favour male nurse directors
Foundation trusts are more likely to give senior nursing posts to men than acute trusts without foundation status, an investigation by HSJ’s sister title Nursing Times has found.
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North East trusts plan redundancies
Around 500 NHS managers and administrators in north-east England are to lose their jobs, it has been reported.
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Information
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HSJ Knowledge
World class service in radiotherapy
Tim Cooper looks at some of the latest developments in radiotherapy to achieve a world-class service
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News
NHS set to lose hundreds of management trainees
The NHS has significantly scaled back its graduate management scheme amid fears it could be spending millions on trainees who will struggle to find jobs.
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York Hospitals FT freezes manager recruitment
York Hospitals Foundation Trust has imposed a management recruitment freeze as part of a package of measures to save £30m over the next three years.
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NHS management cuts hotspots revealed
An HSJ investigation has revealed the clearest national picture to date of the primary care trusts being hit hardest by NHS management savings.
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World class commissioning: PCTs raise the bar in final assurance test
Primary care trusts have set out their stall as support agencies for GP consortia by significantly improving their performance against the standards and competencies assessed in the second - and last ever - world class commissioning assurance test.
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HSBC boss warns against stringent cuts
“Cutting into the muscle” of the UK’s public sector with huge budget reductions could cause lasting economic and social damage, a leading banker has warned.
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C diff deaths falling
The number of deaths from healthcare associated infections in Scotland is falling, official statistics show.
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Unison wins unsocial hours equal pay tribunal
An employment appeal tribunal has backed a union claim that women should be entitled to the same level of unsocial hours payments as men.
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Cuts may hit 'things we genuinely value', warns PM
Drastic public spending cuts will mean the axe for “some things that we genuinely value”, David Cameron has warned as he braced voters for painful decisions.
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NHS workers of South Asian heritage sought for book
Runnymede, the race equality think tank, is currently researching the contribution of South Asian communities to the NHS and is seeking former NHS workers to take part.
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NHS strike ban 'should be considered'
The government should consider banning strikes by NHS workers as unions prepare to take action against spending cuts, an employers group has suggested.
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Nicola Sturgeon in talks with unions over job cuts
Health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has held talks with union leaders and medical chiefs about looming job cuts in the NHS.
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Managers 'hinder organisations'
Many managers wrongly believe they excel at managing their staff, a misjudgment which is hindering the UK’s “already struggling” businesses, according to the Chartered Management Institute.
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Royal Berkshire Hospital Trusts to cut 600 jobs
The Royal Berkshire Hospital Trust will axe up to 600 jobs under moves to make £60m savings in the next few years, it was announced today.
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Comment
A nervous kind of NHS reorganisation
It’s only a reorganisation, right? Anyone who’s worked in the NHS for a few years has been through reorganisations before.
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HSJ Knowledge
E-rostering
Recent media coverage highlights genuine concern from the BMA and other NHS representative bodies about the impact of threatened and actual cuts in NHS staffing levels.
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Comment
Is this the end of the road for PCTs?
The winding down of PCTs must be handled with kid gloves if disruption to services - and loss of talent - is to be avoided