All Education/training articles – Page 78
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HSJ Partners
Improving English language skills in the NHS
Ensuring that all NHS workers have a good grasp of written and spoken English is an essential part of the patient safety drive, as Rosemarie Simpson explains
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS work experience: getting on board
Work experience is a valuable way of encouraging people to consider a career in the NHS. In the first of a series of work experience diaries, we meet Cara, aged 17, a work experience student at Southampton General Hospital's radiography department
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HSJ Knowledge
Training for non-medical workers in the NHS
Non-clinical staff in the NHS are among the best qualified in the world. However, Dan Wright argues that in every primary care trust, care home and clinic there are overlooked workers who urgently need a training health check
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News
Royal colleges call talks to confront academy failings
A 'crisis meeting' has been called over the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges' future amid infighting between member organisations.
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News
Career framework for allied health professionals
A flexible career framework for allied health professionals will help managers develop teams and services to reflect patients' needs, the Department of Health has claimed.
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News
CMO calls for focus on teen health
Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has called for a focus on teenage health, including a national summit to take stock of health programmes and services for teenagers, more involvement of teenagers in designing health services, and establishing a young person's panel to advise on a national campaign on risk ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Developing the endoscopy practitioner role
Angela Gardiner explains the benefits of developing the role of endoscopy practitioner and outlines the training available
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News
Darzi drives doctors to scale the dizzy heights
The next stage review makes a priority of getting more clinicians into leadership roles. Alison Moore explores the implications of the workforce strategy for clinical professionals
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News
Clinical leaders network ready to roll
A scheme to develop senior clinicians as leaders is to be extended across England after a successful trial.
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News
Darzi turns up heat on clinical leadership and training
Health minister Lord Darzi has put clinical leadership at the centre of his next stage review.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS60: Flash outfit
The light pulsing on top of a modern NHS emergency vehicle signals a mobile unit packed with staff expertise and impressive technology, says Airwave’s David Sangster
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News
New tool to assess patient involvement
The Social Care Institute for Excellence has developed an audit tool to help service providers assess how they involve people in the way they run services.
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HSJ Knowledge
Health sector training opportunities
Why internal training budget cuts do not have to mean the end of staff training and development
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HSJ Knowledge
Anyone here a doctor who speaks nurse?
Tower of Babel-esque communication problems in the NHS are more than just a nuisance - they cost lives. How can the service prevent acronyms, tribes and egos putting patients at unavoidable risk, asks Mark Gould
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HSJ Knowledge
Sector qualifications strategy
Action plans for each UK country are building up the formal recognition for people seeking to enhance their work prospects, and this includes the rebirth of apprenticeships
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Comment
A local perspective on Darzi
As the final report on Lord Darzi's next stage review draws close, Cynthia Bower examines how Skills for Health is already helping to drive change at a local level
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Comment
Local change challenge
The Leading Local Change document, published in May as part of Lord Darzi's next stage review, sits on the desk in front of me as I write. Its message is clear - healthcare needs are changing and our sector must respond.
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HSJ Knowledge
Sector skills agreement - smarter together
The sector skills agreement is the mechanism by which employers, stakeholders and funding will be harnessed together to raise workforce standards. We look at how this is happening in health
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Supplements
Skills development: urgent response
Healthcare providers and employers across the UK face an arduous workforce challenge.
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Comment
Robina Shah on the patient experience
NHS trusts are aware of patients' views through satisfaction surveys and the complaints process. These have shown patient dissatisfaction in three core areas: communication and information, the manner and attitude of staff and the hospital environment.