All Agency staff articles – Page 10
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NewsExclusive: Bailouts top £870m as trusts struggle to pay bills
The Department of Health issued £874m in bailouts to trusts in 2014-15, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsStevens interview: Dealing with agency staff is NHS’s ‘biggest operational risk’
NHS trusts will ‘undoubtedly’ struggle to employ the doctors and nurses they need as the service clamps down on the cost of temporary staff from next month, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has told HSJ.
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NewsHunt to intervene on agency spending
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt will today unveil plans to cap agency and management consultancy spending by NHS trusts.
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CommentHigh temp costs: A competition issue or held back NHS wages?
Competition issue or NHS wages being held down?
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LeaderModernisers must cut the deficit to keep their side of the deal
The ‘excuses’ for not delivering the forward view have been swept away
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NewsStevens launches hospital chains 'vanguard'
NHS England will ‘test new ways’ of sustaining smaller hospitals, including ‘chains’ running acute services, in its latest vanguard programme launched today by Simon Stevens.
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CommentBuild a clearer clinical workforce picture to tackle the challenges it faces
A systematic dataset
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HSJ LocalHinchingbrooke reports sharp deficit rise as Circle departs
Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust has forecast a £14m deficit for 2014-15 – nearly double the size of its deficit for the first eight months of the financial year.
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NewsConfed chief: Politicians should recognise workforce cost reality
Politicians should recognise the NHS needs to ‘get more out of’ and reduce the cost of its staff, the NHS Confederation chief executive has said.
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HSJ LocalBarts’ deficit doubles to £93m
FINANCE: The predicted year-end deficit of one of Britain’s biggest hospital trusts has more than doubled.
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NewsCarter's procurement review to scrutinise temporary staff costs
A government backed review of NHS procurement has been expanded to examine the “concerning” rise in temporary staff bills, its head has revealed to HSJ.
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SupplementsLet’s unlock our people’s potential
The NHS Leadership Academy’s Karen Lynas on ‘talent conversations’
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SupplementsFlexible Futures: Embrace locum staff
Flexibility and motivation benefit both the employee and employer
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NewsNHS England to develop new indicator for nurse staffing
Almost half of NHS hospitals and inpatient areas recorded nursing shift ‘fill rates’ of more than 100 per cent in May, according to figures released as part of the government’s patient safety drive.
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SupplementsWorkforce: Why the key to people is planning
The art of deploying locums and other temporary staff
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SupplementsPatient safety supplement: The locum motive and body of evidence
Hiring temps and using clinical protocols are key
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NewsPractices increasingly relying on primary care staff to fill GP shortfalls
GP surgeries in areas with some of the highest patient to doctor ratios are increasingly relying on nurses to plug gaps left by the shortage of medics
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HSJ Local
Trust requests 'immediate' staffing support from northern providers
WORKFORCE: A North West trust has had to write to acute NHS providers across the north of England to request immediate medical staffing support to maintain its services.