All Workforce articles – Page 476

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Turnaround strategies and the law

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Many NHS bodies are developing turnaround plans to achieve financial recovery. The implementation of these raises complex legal issues, particularly on patient and public involvement and employment law. Graeme Trigg reports

  • News

    Protestors slam IPPR reconfiguration report

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    An umbrella group of health workers, unions and patients opposed to privatisation and closure plans have rubbished Institute for Public Policy Research reconfiguration claims.

  • Comment

    Your Humble Servant: the new SHA

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Strategic hip authority

  • News

    Half of new nurses out of work

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Almost half of newly qualified nurses have not been able to find jobs this year, MPs heard last week.

  • News

    Lord Warner to limit GP pensions

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The government has moved to limit increases in GP pensions, claiming patient services could be at risk if it did not act.

  • News

    MPs slam health ministers' financial failures

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Ministers' failure to get a grip on NHS finances last year led to a £570m net deficit in England, according to MPs.

  • News

    Surrey social enterprise prepares for launch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    England's largest so-called 'social enterprise' offering healthcare services will launch in shadow form on 1 August.

  • News

    New push to engage with staff on reform

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The government is creating an advisory group to 'provide strategic advice' on reform of the health and social care system.

  • News

    Non-execs step down from troubled trust

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Three non-executive directors have stepped down at a trust beset with financial problems and controversy over possible service changes.

  • Comment

    Laura Donnelly on thoughts at last orders

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'I used to be frightened when a colleague wore a Virginia Bottomley mask in times of stress'

  • News

    SHAs slash training fund for doctors

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Training of doctors is at risk because strategic health authorities cut training budgets by millions of pounds last year, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Conservative Party.

  • Comment

    Media Watch: junior doctors

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'How could they be so stupid?' asked the Daily Mail as it berated the government for failing to ensure junior doctors will be guaranteed jobs this summer in the Department of Health's new recruitment process.

  • Comment

    Michael White: junior doctors

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Hewitt would have watched footage of Cameron being cheered by a throng of angry junior doctors with some alarm'

  • News

    Patient top-up fees on rise, say doctors

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Patients are increasingly having to pay top-up fees for private care because of budget cuts in the NHS and long waiting times, according to a report by pressure group Doctors for Reform.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Graduated delays

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Government plans to increase the number of primary care mental health workers delivering therapy services have yet to take off, reports Emma Dent

  • Comment

    HSJ debate: So you want to be a director?

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    HSJ 'Managers make a difference' Campaign: Whether it's the art of fostering effective relationships with clinicians, non-executives and politicians or demonstrating empathy with staff, what does the next generation of high-quality managers need? HSJ brought together six chief executives to provide some answers

  • News

    Preferential pay-off deals protected

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Staff facing the axe under NHS restructuring will be protected from worsened redundancy and retirement terms resulting from new anti-age discrimination laws.

  • Comment

    A different kind of day at the office

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The HSJChallenge offers managers the opportunity to escape their day jobs and pit their wits against their peers in a in a multi-agency health economy with more than its fair share of problems. The good news is that it's not for real. ...

  • Comment

    How doctors learned to stop worrying and love data

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The NHS has never lacked information, but, says Dr Foster Intelligence's Tim Kelsey, only now are managers and clinicians harnessing its power to change services. Public access is the next big challenge

  • News

    Current policy threatens supply of GPs

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The draft NHS pay and workforce strategy reveals that the Department of Health's current policies will create a shortage of 1,200 family doctor whole-time equivalent posts (WTE) in four years' time.