All Workforce articles – Page 418
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NewsForeign NHS nurses jailed for fraud
Two nurses have been jailed for fraud after using false documents to study and work in Britain.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: So what do you do, then?
Dread networking events? You could learn to love them, says James Potter
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HSJ KnowledgeSink or swim: how small hospitals survive competition
Small district general hospitals are often the heart of their communities but their survival is only assured by outmanoeuvring the big trusts. By Alison Moore
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CommentNicky Spencer on the three dimensions of workload management
Overwhelmed by your workload? Need to increase capacity at work, career potential, confidence?
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NewsRestricted emails reveal MMC tensions
Behind the scenes tensions over the viability of a consultant-led NHS have been revealed in a series of restricted Department of Health documents.
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NewsNo payoff for Mid Staffs chief executive
Mid Staffordshire foundation trust’s former chief executive Martin Yeates will receive six months’ salary but no severance payment following his resignation.
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NewsNew deputy chief executive role for Islington PCT
Islington primary care trust has created a post of deputy chief executive, which will be filled by the PCT’s current chief operating officer Helen Pettersen.
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NewsDerby City primary care trust appoints director
Derby City primary care trust has appointed a new strategy and market management director.
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NewsTories propose junior nurse NHS board members
Junior nurses would sit on trust boards under pilot schemes being proposed by the Conservative Party.
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NewsDepartment of Health appoints NHS director of patient and public experience
The Department of Health has appointed Paul Streets as director of patient and public experience.
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NewsPrison nurse jailed after falsifying passport
A Zimbabwean nurse who used a falsified passport to get a job working with substance misusers at Holloway Prison has been jailed for a year.
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NewsMid Staffs chief executive resigns
The chief executive of Mid Staffordshire foundation trust has resigned, two months after the Healthcare Commission published its damning report.
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NewsRose Gibb to take case to Court of Appeal
Rose Gibb is to fight on in her battle to get her £250,000 payoff - making a double-pronged approach to the Court of Appeal and an employment tribunal.
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NewsNHS staff could have stopped abusive GP sooner
An independent review into a GP jailed for carrying out 23 indecent assaults on patients over a 20 year period has found NHS staff could have acted at least 12 years earlier than they did.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to improve quality of diagnosis
Little research exists into issues around GPs and acute clinicians getting diagnoses wrong. Ingrid Torjesen asks what the NHS is doing about this crucial quality issue
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NewsFormer finance director reprimanded for accounting failings
A former primary care trust finance director has been reprimanded by her professional accountancy body after her organisation had to adjust its accounts by £7.1m.
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NewsFunds dry up for anti-bullying training in the NHS
The NHS is struggling to fund anti-bullying training for staff and managers despite evidence of widespread problems, a charity is claiming.
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CommentYour Humble Servant on appropriate attire
It can be hard to decide how to dress for a dress-down, informal bonding session with colleagues, as ours gamely proved.
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LeaderStrategic health authority chiefs bring a new flavour to the NHS
After many months, we once again have a full complement of strategic health authority chief executives, even if one of them has been given the honour of being made temporary flu czar (news, page 7).
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Community
Barefaced cheek
We all know ambulance work can be tough, but last week a Surrey paramedic was particularly desperate for an after work tipple. After a Tesco worker refused to serve him a bottle of wine on the grounds that he was an emergency services employee in uniform, he stormed out of ...