All Workforce articles – Page 486
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New grade: BMA backlash expected
Government proposals to reduce a glut of over 3,000 consultants by creating a sub-consultant grade will be 'bitterly opposed' by the British Medical Association, the draft workforce strategy warns.
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Warning over union action on pay
Department of Health senior officials warned of 'a real danger of industrial unrest' if the government set next year's NHS pay award at 2 per cent - just a month before the DoH proposed an even lower figure.
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Plans for consultants 'absurd', says BMA
British Medical Association consultants committee chair Dr Jonathan Fielden has criticised the Department of Health’s draft pay and workforce documents, revealed in HSJtoday. He said: ‘It is absurd to suggest that the NHS in England needs fewer hospital consultants. ‘To suggest that there should be fewer consultants, and of a ...
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DoH plans mark rewriting of relationship with professions
If one image of the dole queue helped finish off Labour in 1979, just imagine what might happen if the jobless wore white coats. The prospect of making large numbers of consultant posts redundant is one rarely articulated in public. That changes this week with HSJrevealing ...
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HR managers must forge new staff model
The pay and workforce draft strategy documents seen by HSJpaint a picture of just how demanding 2007 will be for the human resources profession.
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Two more dates confirmed for Good Management Live
Two new dates have been confirmed for the next set of Good Management Live dates - dealing with the application of lean techniques and with length of stay.
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'Deficits have cut 22,000 jobs' claim
More than 22,000 nursing jobs have disappeared in the past 18 months because of deficits, the Royal College of Nursing has alleged.
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Trust offers 6,000 staff voluntary redundancy
Wage slips received last week by almost 6,000 staff at County Durham and Darlington foundation trust also included a letter offering them voluntary severance deals.
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Senior managers have been awarded a 1.3 per cent pay rise.
Chief executives were informed in a letter by health minister Lord Hunt last week that their annual increase would be in line with raises set for other senior public sector staff, including medical consultants and senior civil servants.
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Barometer: mental health September 2006
Mental health chief executives surveyed for Barometer report high levels of confidence on recruitment of medical, nursing and therapy staff.
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NHS Blood and Transplant to cut 400 jobs
Four hundred staff are set to be cut following the closure of three of the country's 10 blood centres and the sale of the only government-owned bio products laboratory.
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Nottingham University Hospitals trust to lose 450 posts
About 450 whole-time equivalent posts are to be cut at one of the UK's largest hospital trusts.
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Academics call for NHS independence
The NHS should be given greater freedom from government intervention if it is to achieve stability and success, according to a report co-written by the former head of the Department of Health strategy unit.
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Staff asked to stay at home as Scarborough accounts come under investigation
Scarborough and North Yorkshire Healthcare trust chief executive Alison Guy and director of finance Bernard Flynn have been asked to stay at home while the trust board and the local strategic health authority scrutinise accounting procedures.
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RCN to discuss strike action
Nurses could be balloted over industrial action following a meeting held this week.
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Future of London chief up in the air after Nicholson appointment
The post of chief executive of the NHS in London could be re-advertised following David Nicholson's appointment as NHS chief executive.
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Apology after appointments code breach
The NHS Appointments Commission breached the code of openness and transparency in its controversial appointment of a chair for NHS London.
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Alarm as diabetes jobs are slashed
More than a quarter of specialist diabetes nurses say trusts have cut posts and some nurses been made redundant, according to a survey.
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Alliance forms network for senior leaders
A forum has been set up for senior primary care managers who work with clinicians.
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Controversial American set to lead commercial directorate
The Department of Health is set to draft in another American to head up the commercial directorate and oversee its merger with the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency.