All Workforce articles – Page 465
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HSJ Knowledge
Out of the picture
The NHS is still dragging its feet on race equality, especially in top posts. So will the relaunched Breaking Through programme kick-start the revolution, asks Caroline White
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News
Support for doctors with physical and mental illnesses
NHS and independent healthcare providers are being invited to set up and run a new service to support doctors and dentists with physical and mental illnesses or addiction concerns.
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HSJ Knowledge
Cambodia
In the second of series on volunteering abroad, Patricia Sloan talks about how she is settling in to a new life in Cambodia.It is exactly two months since I left from Manchester Airport outward bound for Phnom Penh and into the unknown. I had spent the weeks prior to ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Global challenge - volunteering abroad in mental health
Overseas volunteering is increasingly seen as a way for health professionals to get involved in improving global health. Here, Deji Oyebode explains how it works
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News
Creating coaching cultures
Coaching has become a recognised, global profession established in a diverse range of organisations worldwide.
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HSJ Knowledge
Getting equality right
Blair McPherson argues that promoting equality and diversity can help NHS organisations get their house in order
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HSJ Knowledge
Ken Jarrold on an NHS birthday to remember
This year could be the best for the NHS in England for some time. Challenges will not be in short supply, including the 18-week target, infection control, foundation status and maintaining hard-won financial stability. However, it should be the first year for a while that is not dominated by financial ...
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HSJ Knowledge
View from the front line: redesigning care
Understanding the concerns and challenges facing staff on the ground is essential to good management. In this new series HSJ goes back to the floor to get the views and opinions of frontline workers
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News
Career coaching: yes, you can phone a friend
In a new series, management coaches tackle HSJ readers' issues. This week, Dorothy Larios helps a trainee frustrated by a perceived lack of opportunities
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HSJ Knowledge
At the heart of change - reducing coronary heart disease
ISIP is helping to pull together existing work on prevention and treatment to tackle Hull's high mortality rates, reports Alison Moore
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News
DH asks how best to sack ineffective chairs
The Department of Health has launched a consultation on the best way to get rid of primary care trust chairs or non-executive trust directors who are not up to the job.
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News
Anger over C difficile pay-off
The former chief executive of a trust at the centre of an infection control scandal is to get a £75,000 pay-off.Rose Gibb, who led Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, will only get her 'legal entitlement' of six months' salary, the trust said yesterday.
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News
New pay scale for unsocial hours
NHS Employers and trade union officials have agreed on a provisional new pay scale for unsocial hours.
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HSJ Knowledge
Dementia care: in search of the person behind the condition
There will be a massive rise in the number of people with dementia in the next 15 years. They will all require a gold standard of person centred care, where they are kept occupied and their identity recognised
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Comment
Jon Restell on big picture partnerships
In the winter months I need some little fantasies to spice up my working life. Let me share with you just one of many.
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News
Royal colleges call for more input from doctors at Department of Health
A medical 'vacuum' is being created at the heart of the Department of Health by the exclusion of doctors from key decision making, doctors' leaders have warned.
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News
Trusts contest figures for yearly management costs
NHS trusts are spending up to 15 per cent of their annual income on management costs, according to Department of Health figures released this week.
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News
Tooke report into MMC may be illegal
Recommendations made by the Tooke report into Modernising Medical Careers may be illegal, the Department of Health has claimed.
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News
Central pay deals compromise patient care, study claims
Lives are being lost because of the way nurses' pay is negotiated centrally, claims a study for the Centre for Economic Performance and Centre for Market and Public Organisation.
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HSJ Knowledge
It’s all about the individual
This HSJ Award-winning training and quality development programme for educators teaches a thoroughly patient-centred approach. Stuart Shepherd is keen to learn more