All Education/training articles – Page 14
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CommentThe NHS should build overseas 'workforce factories'
To meet the widening healthcare workforce gap, Dr Nadeem Moghal suggests a new bold and ethical model of education that seeks to build local capability in the low and middle income countries from where the UK sources healthcare workers
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NewsGPs snub partnerships for locum and salaried roles
The number of GPs opting to work as salaried employees or locums rather than taking on partner roles is continuing to rise, according to the latest NHS workforce data.
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HSJ AwardsTransforming lives with clinical leadership
Praised for his evidence based approach and cultural sensitivity, Anthony Clarkson, assistant director and chief nurse for organ donation, NHS Blood and Transplant Special Health Authority, won the 2018 HSJ Award for Clinical Leader of the Year
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HSJ LocalMedical watchdog warning over 'consultant leadership'
The General Medical Council has raised serious concerns about the quality of training at a major London teaching trust.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Pharmacy and medicines optimisation award
Winner Salford Royal Foundation Trust: Salford polycystic kidney disease multidisciplinary clinic – pharmacy-led drug education and management When a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence-approved treatment for polycystic kidney disease became available in 2015, Salford Royal FT set up specialist clinics and ensured patients had information to help them ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Facilities and estates management award
Winner Barts Health Trust waste management team: Exemplar waste compliance and staff behavioural change project The waste management team at Barts Health Trust – a partnership with Skanska’s waste contracted management service – has worked with staff to reduce both the cost and amount of clinical waste disposal, by ensuring ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Training and development initiative of the year
Winner Harrow PACT project: Planning together with care homes residents Care home residents may be admitted to hospital at the end of life because their wishes are not known or staff feel ill-equipped to engage with advance care planning. This project offered training to care home staff to enable them ...
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NewsThe NHS must 'grab hold' of international recruitment
The NHS must take a firmer grip of recruitment efforts in overseas countries, and make sure that trusts and health systems cooperate and adopt best practice, if targets are to be met, according to Health Education England’s director of global engagement Ged Byrne.
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NewsExclusive: Hiring 5,000 extra overseas nurses a year still likely to leave NHS short-staffed
Even “optimal delivery” of international recruitment efforts would leave the NHS short of nearly 19,000 nurses by 2023-24, according to analysis carried out by the Department of Health and Social Care, HSJ has learned.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: The RCN's long road to redemption
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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NewsStevens: NHS must act to prevent 'hollowing out' of DGHs
The NHS must rethink the district general hospital model to counter the risk of the health service deserting the “at-risk communities” many serve, Simon Stevens has warned.
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HSJ AwardsIdentifying and caring for women suffering with perinatal trauma
Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust won the 2018 HSJ Award for Compassionate Patient Care by developing a birth trauma service with timely access to psychological interventions for perinatal trauma
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HSJ LocalPrivate sector capitalising on budget cuts to tempt nurses
Private sector providers are taking advantage of training budget cuts to tempt nurses away from a major NHS hospital trust.
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HSJ LocalTrusts use apprenticeship levy to retain student nurses
Nursing students will have their course fees paid for government funding in exchange for committing to work for two remote NHS trusts.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Why the workforce plan was leaked
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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HSJ LocalUrgent care centre taken out of special measures
An urgent care centre in north east London has achieved a “good” rating, nine months after it was placed in special measures.
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HSJ LocalTrust could face 'catastrophic' situation over outdated equipment
A hospital trust has warned it could face a “catastrophic” situation through the contamination of outdated equipment.
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NewsSpecialties under threat from potential training cuts
Health Education England’s review of funding arrangements places two mental health professions at risk, clinicians have warned.
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NewsDido Harding: ‘Soviet style’ national workforce plan is not possible
Writing a national NHS workforce plan akin to “Soviet style tractor production” is not possible, Baroness Dido Harding has said.
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HSJ AwardsThe care navigators reducing pressure on GPs
Conexus Healthcare, a GP federation in the West Wakefield area, won the 2018 HSJ Award for community or primary care services redesign (North/Midlands/East) for its national consultancy and training programme. Alison Moore reports