All Education/training articles – Page 58
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HSJ Knowledge
How e-learning has helped define better induction for new doctors
Providing e-learning modules to streamline induction for doctors gives them the opportunity to train in areas that are more appropriate, and brings induction processes up to date. The benefits are being felt by both the doctors and patients, says Kamal Nathavitharana.
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News
Training budgets enforcer may lack 'authority'
The body being established to hold trusts to account for how they spend £5bn of education and training funding may lack sufficient “authority”, the Royal College of Nursing has warned.
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News
Large variation in nursing skill mix, figures show
Figures obtained by HSJ reveal a large difference in staff skill mix between different hospital trusts.
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HSJ Local
Medway FT accredited for minor injuries course
WORKFORCE: Medway NHS Foundation Trust has introduced a minor injuries training course for nurses and paramedics.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why NHS boards might be missing out on opportunities to act
A study of NHS staff using the Myers Brggs Type Indicator to undersand how people make decisions has revealed that NHS boards could be missing people with the inclination to truly innovate, and the drive to take action. Julian Bond and Naomi Chambers explain.
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News
UCL Partners to become 'biggest AHSC in the world'
UCL Partners is expected to become the biggest academic health science centre in the world after welcoming another trust and a university to its partnership.
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News
Exclusive: transparency on training budgets promised
The newly appointed head of Health Education England has told HSJ she will make it “absolutely clear” to trusts that the £5bn NHS training budget must not be raided for other uses.
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News
NHS London offers GPs training to smooth passage into CCGs
London’s GPs are being offered management training worth £7m in an attempt to smooth their passage to becoming clinical commissioning groups.
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HSJ Local
Success for dementia training pilot at East Sussex Healthcare
WORKFORCE: East Sussex Healthcare staff have taken part in a pilot project to train them in improving care for patients with dementia.
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HSJ Local
UK’s first mental health ‘recovery college’ opens in SW London
STRUCTURE: An education institution specifically aimed at teaching about mental health recovery has been formerly opened at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
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Comment
Why public health practice must be integrated into commissioning
Whatever form the new NHS commissioning landscape takes, public health practice needs to be an integral part of it. A discussion is needed as to how it fits in to the structure, write Julie Sin, Su Sethi and Alison Rylands.
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HSJ Knowledge
How coaching can be an antidote to organisational 'groupthink'
Coaching means different things to different people, but a significant element is the ability to listen, and to provide a space that has the potential to challenge the illusion and rhetoric which dominates organisations, and so disempower group “norms”, says Dr Angélique du Toit.
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HSJ Knowledge
Exploring the benefits of coaching for clinicians and patients
With clinicians stepping up their leadership skills and patients having increased opportunity to exercise choice in their healthcare, Dr Penny Newman and Dr Andrew McDowell weigh up the benefits of coaching in enabling both groups to make the most of the changes.
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News
Agency workers to get improved employment deal
New rights for temporary and short term contract staff are due to come into force this weekend, helping to stamp out some of the exploitation agency staff face at work, the TUC has said.
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HSJ Local
George Eliot junior docs not getting sufficient training
WORKFORCE: Concerns have been raised that junior doctors at George Eliot Hospital Trust are not getting the “right level” of training.
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News
Flexible hospital visits claim defended by Carter
A nurses’ leader who suggested relatives of the elderly should be encouraged to help care for loved ones while in hospital has moved to defend his comments.
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News
Former CMO dealt out photos of dead children on minister's desk like a "pack of cards"
It is too easy for the higher echelons of the NHS to forget about the impacts of their policies on real people while staff on the front line can become “inured to suffering”, the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry has heard.
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News
London 2012 sports medic pledge likely to fall short
An expansion in specialist sports medics proposed as part of London’s 2012 Olympic bid is likely to be missed by a huge margin, according to a report.
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HSJ Knowledge
How pairing clinicians with managers could speed up clinical excellence
‘Buddying’ clinicians with managers could help both groups collectively create an environment where clinical excellence is inevitable. Bob Klaber and colleagues report.
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HSJ Local
Training for dealing with dementia patients rolled out at Royal Devon and Exeter
WORKFORCE: Ward staff at Royal Devon and Exeter FT have had specialist training on how to handle difficult situations involving dementia patients who may be confused or upset on the wards.