All Agenda for Change articles – Page 10
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NewsStaff consulted on terms and conditions changes
NHS staff are to be surveyed on controversial plans to reduce the pay bill by modifying their employment terms and conditions.
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NewsTop managers set to escape regional pay
The NHS’s most senior managers should not receive localised rates of pay, the Department of Health has said.
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NewsMiliband: attacks on nursing are 'totally unfair'
Attacking the nursing profession over isolated examples of bad practice “is totally unfair”, Labour leader Ed Miliband has told HSJ’s sister title.
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NewsNHS Employers targets reduced incremental pay rises
NHS Employers has launched a bid to reduce the impact of incremental pay rises in the NHS, it has been revealed.
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NewsPrentis warns Lansley over 'attack' on Agenda for Change
The government will face widespread industrial action by health workers if it launches an attack on NHS pay and the Agenda for Change agreement, the general secretary of Unison said today.
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NewsUnion leaders attack regional pay proposals
Changing the pay rates of public sector workers, including NHS staff, to reflect regional differences would be an “unworkable, divisive nightmare”, union leaders have warned.
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LeaderAgenda for Change was built for a feast. How will it cope with famine?
This year’s Budget puts the squeeze on pay.
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HSJ Local
Second hospital abandons staff sickness policy
WORKFORCE: A second hospital trust in the North West has ripped up a sickness absence policy under which nurses had pay increments withheld.
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NewsCCGs will be subject to Agenda for Change
Clinical commissioning groups will be made subject to the Agenda for Change pay agreement to avoid spiralling redundancy costs, it has been confirmed.
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NewsAgenda for Change could survive regional pay push
The Department of Health is pushing for the Agenda for Change national pay framework to survive the introduction of regional pay rates in the NHS, it has emerged.
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NewsPay freeze fails to prevent trust overspend on wages
The NHS pay freeze has failed to prevent acute hospitals from running up an estimated £300m year-to-date overspend on wage bills, an HSJ investigation has revealed.
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HSJ Local
Central Manchester FT acted 'unlawfully' over pay freezes
WORKFORCE: Central Manchester Foundation Trust acted “unlawfully” by attempting to withhold incremental pay rises from staff who took too much sick leave, a tribunal has found.
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HSJ Local
Union attacks Northumbria FT for mileage rate cut
WORKFORCE: The union Unite has said Northumbria Foundation Trust “could face a legal challenge” after nearly halving the mileage paid to some of its staff.
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HSJ Local
Burton FT considering local pay proposals
WORKFORCE: Staff could go “several years” without incremental pay rises and some would only receive “market rate” salaries where there was a “business need”, under a foundation trust’s proposals.
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Comment'Deal with productivity variation, or risk the long term future of the NHS'
Only by swiftly adressing the issue of clinical practice variation and developing better evidence based practice can we stop the quality of NHS care eroding, writes Professor Alan Maynard.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: is local pay a fair deal everywhere?
George Osborne’s stated purpose in opening up the issue of local pay rates is to ensure “public sector pay does not distort local labour markets”.
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CommentCan the NHS Pay Review Body still be regarded as independent?
A “perfect storm” of issues surrounding staff terms and conditions could see all sides vying to influence the NHS Pay Review Body in the next 12 months. In such troubled times, can it realistically hope to retain its independence, asks Mike Jackson.
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NewsManagers divided over local pay options
NHS leaders are divided over a possible move away from national pay bargaining, although most managers with responsibilities over pay bills support greater local flexibility.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhere is the NHS equivalent of the strategic defence and security review?
The so-called “radical” health reforms are for the large part anything but, but they raise a central point about an imbalance in the NHS workforce and its sustainability in the current system. This needs to be addressed urgently, writes Robert Royce.
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NewsOsborne sets out details of NHS local pay review
Chancellor George Osborne has claimed there is a “clear case” for changing the national NHS pay deal in a letter setting out eight areas to be considered in a forthcoming review.