All Workforce articles – Page 495

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    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The paper suggested that any 'sentient being' would be so aghast at the details of the Cornwall report that they would immediately want to turn to the sports pages

  • News

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Another week and another revelation about the Department of Health's troubled IT programme, this time from a very unlikely source.

  • News

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The NHS entered the debate about What Not to Wearthis week as the Daily Expresstrumpeted: 'The veil is banned in hospitals.' The paper revealed 'details of the purge of faceless medics' at Birmingham University's school of medicine. Students are allowed to cover ...

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    Media Watch: nurses protest

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Avenging angels hit the headlines and the streets this weekend as they came out in force to protest at, among other things, a below-inflation pay rise.

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    Media Watch: 'NHS penpushers'

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'NHS penpushers are paid £1.5m for doing nothing' the Daily Mail told its readers as the tabloids frothed earlier this week over news that the Department of Health is paying £1.5m to civil servants whose jobs have been made redundant.

  • News

    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Don?t think, Mr or Ms Finance Director, that you can force Ms Hewitt out by hiring some extra doctors or buying a fleet of scanners'

  • Comment

    Michael White on the pay round

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The tough pay round is a blatant 'clawback' and I don't think doctors can expect much sympathy'

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    Noel Pumridge on workforce planning

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Or, in simple terms, why should the NHS pay a nurse in Workington almost as much as a nurse in Wimbledon? She'll only fritter it away anyway.

  • News

    Non-executive was unlawfully sacked

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Appointments Commission has admitted unlawfully sacking a non-executive director of a primary care trust who opposed an ill-fated independent treatment centre contract.