All Clinical Leaders articles – Page 5
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Doctors to get access to dedicated mental health services
More than 180,000 NHS doctors and dentists across England will now have access to a confidential and 24/7 self-referral service dedicated to mental health support.
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CommentThe Bedpan: Extinction Rebellion reaches the NHS
This week: Doctors for Extinction Rebellion
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CommentStaff engagement: a fundamental shift starts with a bungee jump
Despite the NHS staff surveys revealing a range of issues that need to be tackled, staff typically say that nothing happens to fix them. A shift of consciousness amongst leaders is needed to help build the belief that things can be different. By Hannah Forbes
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CommentSex, lies and the ‘intentionally difficult doctor’
To regulate unprofessional conduct of healthcare professionals, a governance framework that defines and measures medical professionalism using reliable data is needed, suggests Nadeem Moghal
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NewsFirst new national clinical directors named
A new national clinical director for cancer has been appointed, along with two other NCDs.
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HSJ LocalSpecial measures hospital seeks ‘workforce academy’
A struggling district general hospital is in discussions with a local college to establish a “workforce academy” and school of nursing to address its workforce problems, its chief executive told HSJ.
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CommentWhy are NHS trusts not doing more research?
Clinical research has a positive impact on society, so why isn’t every hospital and healthcare professional in the UK supporting research, asks Dr William Van’t Hoff
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NewsTop A&E doctor: Pensions tax puts safety at risk over winter
The leader of the emergency medicine profession has issued a fresh warning about its doctors cutting their hours due to new pension tax rules as demand surges through winter.
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HSJ InteractiveRoundtable: Facilitating choice in haemodialysis
An HSJ roundtable, sponsored by NxStage, looked at the advantages and deterrents to adoption of home haemodialysis in the NHS and ways to overcome them
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NewsTrusts can keep clinicians’ unused pension contributions
Trusts will be allowed to determine whether they will pay or keep the contributions they would be required to pay into doctors’ pension funds if their clinicians opt for one of the government’s proposed pension tax workarounds.
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NewsTrust’s management blasted by outgoing director
An acute trust’s outgoing director of infection prevention and control has warned infection control was “not driven from the centre of the organisation” and that a lack of engagement from managers, and the medical and nursing establishment went “under the radar”.
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Ministers to outline pensions crisis plans
Senior doctors and nurses will be allowed to set their own level of pension contributions each tax year under government proposals to tackle the pensions crisis gripping the health service.
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NewsRegulator announces interim CEO
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has appointed an interim chief executive.
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NewsTrusts could pay consultants through companies to avoid pension tax
A group of NHS trusts had explored letting doctors set up their own companies as a workaround for consultants who have cut their additional hours to avoid being hit with “punitive” tax bills, HSJ has learned. Trusts have explored LLPs as a workaround to ’punitive’ pension tax bills problem ...
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NewsTrust CEO says pension proposals make him feel like ‘second-class NHS citizen’
The government has been accused by senior NHS figures of treating managers unfairly after confirming pension changes would not apply to them.
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NewsManagers still excluded from NHS pensions proposals despite rethink
The government is proposing allowing senior doctors to set their own pension contributions alongside a review of how tax rules are impacting clinicians, in a bid to prevent doctors refusing extra NHS work.
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CommentPrimary care networks are a quiet revolution
Primary care networks have huge potential, but how they interact with other NHS providers is crucial, argues Andrew Ridley
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: A closer look at supervision
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping ...
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NewsInvestigation of serious safety incidents to be overhauled
The NHS will move away from traditional thresholds for serious incident investigations as part of its new national patient safety strategy.
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CommentWhen is a saving not a saving?
NHS bodies and management consultancies often resort to false accounting and use misleading language to describe finances in order to keep the show running, notes Nadeem Moghal