All Workforce articles – Page 410
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News
Anger over GP quality decision
The Department of Health has angered senior figures in primary care by appointing external consultants McKinsey to advise a panel of experts on how to measure GP quality.
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News
NHS managers' relationships with staff to be scrutinised
NHS staff will be asked detailed questions about their relationships with managers for a review commissioned by the Department of Health.
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Comment
Responding to the European working time directive
The European working time directive provides an opportunity to reassess how junior doctors are trained in the NHS, writes John Coakley
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News
Trust sacks chief executive
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust has dismissed suspended chief executive John Watkinson following an independent review into its management and governance.
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Comment
Improving patient care through the Clinical Leaders Network
The NHS Clinical Leaders Network has the potential to improve patient care in the North East, says Dr Simon Eaton
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News
Royal Free chief resigns
Royal Free Hospital trust chief executive Andrew Way has resigned from his post to run a group of hospitals in Australia.
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NHS Employers appoints head of employment services
NHS Employers has appointed Karen Charman as its head of employment services.
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NHS Careers boosts applications to the health service
Nearly half of people who contact the NHS careers service take action to join the health service.
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Comment
Robina Shah on developing diversity in the NHS
The recent Healthcare Commission report on race equality once again found NHS trusts to be wanting.
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News
GP quality: the final frontier for inspectors
So far general practice has remained impervious to the expanding remit of the inspectors. This week the King’s Fund revealed proposals for a new GP quality inquiry that has even won backing from the profession. Helen Mooney reports
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Competition panel launches inquiry into consultants' private work
The NHS co-operation and competition panel is expected to launch its first inquiry this week into NHS consultants working for hospitals other than their main employer during their spare time.
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Staff pay comes under scrutiny to save costs
The expected squeeze on NHS funding growth means organisations will need to consider cutting jobs and pay, a leading management consultancy has claimed.
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Ex-BBC boss joins national leadership council
Former BBC director general Greg Dyke has been named alongside an eclectic list of figures on the national leadership council for the NHS.
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Ex-SHA chair admits email was a mistake
The strategic health authority chair who revealed details of a private meeting with health secretary Alan Johnson admitted his actions were “inappropriate at best” in correspondence seen by HSJ.
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Comment
Ken Jarrold on getting the best from staff
If the NHS is to improve public health and provide high quality services to patients, it must look after its staff, including chief executives and senior managers.
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Mid Staffordshire redundancies under scrutiny
Mid Staffordshire hospital trust paid out £1.3m in redundancy payments between 2006 and 2009, figures disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed.
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Blogs
Competence or expertise – you choose, if you have a choice
Workforce planning is an ambiguous art made yet more ambiguous when set on a national scale with its unconnected, conflicting and changing priorities – still, we try.
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HSJ Knowledge
Working Hours: two ways to reduce junior doctors' hours
Two different trusts have focused on ways of working within specialties as the route to compliance on junior doctors’ hours
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HSJ Knowledge
Working Hours: NHS organisations on track to meet working time directive
Most NHS organisations are on track to have their staff working an average of no more than 48 hours a week by 1 August
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HSJ Knowledge
Working Hours: top tips to meet the working time directive
Here is a collation of invaluable tips from experts on achieving the European working time directive