All Workforce articles – Page 431
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Comment
Paul Jennings on listening to staff
Improving communication with staff took Walsall Teaching primary care trust from the bottom 10 per cent to the top 10 per cent in the national staff survey
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HSJ Knowledge
Suspending trust chairs and non-executives
New legislation coming into force this month gives the Appointments Commission the power to suspend trust chairs and non-executives. However, suspension is unlikely to occur often, as Janice Scanlan explains
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News
New guidance to develop PCT boards
The Department of Health today published guidance on boosting the skills and competence of primary care trust leaders.PCTs will be expected to use the guidance to commission local programmes to develop board members.
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HSJ Knowledge
Darzi review: Give old people a seat at the modernisation table
Services for older people are falling down government priority lists. Two consultant nurses argue for specialist care, in hospital and the community, to be made explicit in reform plans
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Fewer deaths could mean more pay for consultants
Hospital consultants’ pay could be linked to outcomes such as the number of patients who die in their care, the NHS medical director has signalled.
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Inspector backtracks over deaneries decision
A government agency has backtracked after advising doctors that deaneries could be classed as employment agencies.
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Doctors plan industrial action vote
Doctors are set to vote on industrial action at the British Medical Association's annual GP conference next week.
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HSJ Knowledge
Jon Restell on the NHS's 60th anniversary
Are managers going to be unwelcome guests at the NHS's 60th birthday party in July and merely bit players in the next instalment of the next stage review?
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News
Failing managers to be axed under new NHS regime
Managers at failing trusts will be replaced with teams from the private sector or other NHS organisations under a tough new performance regime.
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Ashford and St Peter's appoints new chief executive
Paul Bentley has been appointed as chief executive of Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals trust.
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Polyclinics will not improve care, consultants tell BMA
Six out of 10 consultants say polyclinics will not improve patient care and 83 per cent fear privatisation of the NHS is detrimental to patient care and the service overall.The survey, carried out by the British Medical Association, says that over half of respondents say they are prevented from innovating ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Steve Onyett on transformational leadership
Picture the scene. Two clinical teams have received disappointing performance assessments. In each team, a senior manager brings the team members and their line manager together for an action planning workshop.
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HSJ Partners
Defining the role of the physiotherapist
With more than 35 million work days lost each year in the UK to occupational ill health and injury, it has been widely acknowledged that physiotherapists should play a key role in delivering future occupational health strategies, which in turn must be brought into mainstream healthcare provision.
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News
Health volunteering abroad: a lot to offer
HSJ catches up with VSO workers in Cambodia to find out what they are contributing to the country's health strategy
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Compassion missing in healthcare - NHS Confederation
Care and compassion in healthcare are being put under strain by its increasing sophistication, a debate paper from the NHS Confederation has claimed.
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HSJ Knowledge
Leadership skills: energising staff
How can we best engage people in their work, asks David MacLeod
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HSJ Knowledge
Dealing with presenteeism
There is a new bugbear for the employer - presenteeism - and there is evidence it can be just as harmful to an organisation as its opposite. Paul Gander reports
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Comment
Ali Mohammed on firing staff
Thank goodness The Apprentice is back on TV. It's basically the HR type's ultimate TV programme with a huge dose of entertainment built in.
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HSJ Knowledge
NEDs who guide trusts in crisis
Non-executive directors often have to step into the breach when a trust is in meltdown. But what prompts NEDs to step forward at these times and what can they contribute? Alison Moore reports
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News
Midwives reject pay offer
Members of the Royal College of Midwives have rejected a three-year government pay offer.