All Education/training articles – Page 5
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CommentRefugees can help tackle the NHS workforce shortage
Kaye Burnett places emphasis on supporting people from excluded communities with the opportunity of being potential recruits for the NHS
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HSJ Local‘Bullying’ at world-renowned heart unit leads to removal of junior doctors
Junior doctors have been removed from a ‘world-renowned’ heart surgery unit after “bullying-type behaviours” were reported following an independent investigation.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2021: Patient Safety Education and Training Award
Partnered by WINNER Southern Health and Social Care Trust: Dysphagia Awareness and Management Training Pilot
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2021: People and Organisational Development Initiative of the Year
WINNER: Surgical Division, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust: The Academy of Surgery - providing an attractive and innovative training platform for Trust-Grade Junior Doctors The BHRUT Academy of Surgery is an innovative training pathway to attract non-training doctors wishing to pursue a surgical career. The surgical directorate offers ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2021: Acute Service Redesign Initiative
WINNER: Medway FT: Get It Right First Time: Incorporating Covid-19 The Consultant Nurse wrote and delivered a workforce strategy that over a five-year period would transform the capability and career potential of the nursing workforce. Workforce development was supported through the delivery of two interlinked work-based courses. Learning outcomes focused ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2021: Cardiovascular Care Initiative of the Year
WINNER: Oxford University Hospitals FT: Oxford Integrated Cardiology Service - Creating Value at the Primary and Secondary Care Interface in Cardiovascular Medicine Oxford University Hospitals have recruited and trained a team of 12 GPs to deliver cardiology outpatient appointments for most patients referred from 32 GP practices in Oxfordshire. The ...
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CommentSwifter diagnosis should be the first step to meet elective recovery challenge
The starting point for elective recovery must begin with patients who are still awaiting a decision from a specialist, write Sir Bruce Keogh and Robert Ede
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NewsNightingale deaths lead to warning over ‘confusion’ around ventilator equipment
Two patients died while being treated at London’s Nightingale Hospital amid what a coroner has described as ‘widespread confusion’ around some of the equipment used for ventilation machines.
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NewsTrust racially discriminated against staff member who was refused specialist training
A trust racially discriminated against a biomedical scientist by refusing to allow him to undertake training, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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CommentNHS knowledge specialists have never been more vital
The vital role NHS Knowledge and Library Services play in informing key decision making was brought into a sharper focus than ever during the pandemic, writes Sue Lacey Bryant
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CommentInclusiveness should be seen as a competence and not a virtue
To strengthen board diversity in the NHS, there must be commitment from the top, starting with national commitment and NHS boards, and public transparency is imperative, writes Joan Saddler
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NewsThe Ward Round: The report the government must not ignore
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, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: A fragile recovery
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, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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NewsTory MP: No business in the world would treat their staff like the NHS
The NHS must significantly improve its training offer to staff, or risk losing many of them according to two Conservative MPs who are also clinicians.
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NewsRegulator removes struggling hospital’s junior doctors
Ten junior doctors have been removed from a struggling hospital over concerns they were being left without adequate supervision on understaffed wards.
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News700 anaesthetists may not secure a training job this summer, warns royal college
A perfect storm of pandemic pressures, changes to the medical curriculum and inadequate Health Education England funding threatens to leave 700 anaesthetists without a job this summer, HSJ has learned.
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NewsPrivate provider launches hundreds of nursing apprenticeship places
A private hospital group has launched a new nursing degree apprenticeship programme for up to 270 students.
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NewsTrust with major staff shortages ‘fortunate’ not to be hit harder by covid
Major staff shortages could have compromised patient safety on the Isle of Wight if the island had experienced more cases of covid-19, according to junior doctors.
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HSJ PartnersPatients, partnership and creativity are the key to the digital transformation of the NHS
Uday Bose shares his insights into the digital transformation of the NHS following a discussion he hosted at an HSJ event. He was joined by a diverse group of participants from NHSX, several CCGs, third sector and MPs with an interest in tackling the digital divide
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2020: NHS Communications Initiative of the Year Award
WINNER: NHS Find Your Place – Promoting the North East and North Cumbria as the Best Place to Live, Train and Work