All Agenda for Change articles – Page 15
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NewsDH accepts full staff health and wellbeing recommendations
Every NHS organisation must draw up a plan to improve the health and wellbeing of its staff, following the acceptance of the Boorman review’s recommendations in full by the government.
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NewsTrusts target staff sickness to save money
Trusts are making radical changes to pay and allowances to try to reduce costs and increase productivity without deviating from Agenda for Change.
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NewsNo link found between FT chiefs’ pay rises and performance
There is no link between pay increases awarded to foundation trust chief executives and how much performance improves at their organisations, an analysis of public data claims to reveal.
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NewsNHS managers think nursing directors lack ‘clout’
Directors of nursing have lower status in their organisations than they believe, an extensive survey by HSJ and sister title Nursing Times has found.
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NewsDH eyes patient cap for new tariff rules
NHS hospitals face a limit on the number of patients they will be paid to treat next year, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTories clarify Osborne's pension cap and pay freeze
NHS managers are excluded from shadow chancellor George Osborne’s pledge to cap public sector pension payouts at £50,000 a year, the Conservatives have told HSJ.
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NewsPublic sector pay freeze threat from all sides
Both the government and the opposition have indicated that a large part of the savings needed to recover the UK’s public spending deficit will need to come from pay restraint.
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NewsHonour NHS pay deal, say NHS Employers and DH
The Department of Health and NHS Employers have recommended that there should be no review of the agreed NHS staff pay settlement for 2010-11.
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NewsNHS job cut warning: a 1 per cent pay increase equals 10,000 jobs
Senior NHS managers have called for a pay freeze from 2011 together with a “fundamental review” of staff terms and conditions in the face of expected financial constraints.
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NewsHow long can Southend Hospital remain off the NHS Agenda for Change?
Southend University Hospital opted out of Agenda for Change and local terms and conditions for 95 per cent of its eligible staff. Alison Moore looks at how this independence is working out
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Agenda for Change is helping NHS be a 'progressive employer'
An independent study of Agenda for Change has found no evidence that the pay system discriminates against any staff group.
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NHS chiefs forced to defend Agenda for Change
MPs have attacked health chiefs for failing to ensure Agenda for Change delivered promised gains in staff productivity.
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NHS managers not reaping benefits of Agenda for Change
Managers are still not reaping the benefits promised by Agenda for Change four years after it was introduced, according to the National Audit Office.
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Agenda for Change pay award agreed
The Department of Health, NHS Employers, Unison and the Royal College of Nursing have agreed on a proposed three-year pay package for all NHS Agenda for Change staff.The proposal includes acceptance in full of the 2008-09 NHS pay review body's recommendations for a 2.75 per cent pay rise for nurses ...
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Comment
Phil Kenmore on Agenda for Change
With a lack of focus on underlying behaviours, Agenda for Change cannot deliver long-term results, says Phil Kenmore
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Agenda for Change aims 'unfulfilled'
The majority of managers have been found to support Agenda for Change even though it overspent by millions of pounds and has failed to increase productivity.
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NHS faces big risk from back-pay claims
NHS staff claims for back pay under the Agenda for Change contract are the 'biggest risk' to the Department of Health's pay and workforce strategy, HSJhas learned.
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Comment
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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HSJ Knowledge
Get a buzz from Wasp: how to get ahead in workforce planning
A long-term conditions workforce planning modelling tool could have benefits across the service, reports Emma Dent