All Education/training articles – Page 9
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News
‘Critical decision-making’ at major cancer centre left to trainees
Trainee oncologists at a major cancer centre covered clinics and made “critical” decisions without senior supervision, including for cancers they were not trained for, HSJ can reveal.
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News
Junior doctors could lose travel expenses
A proposed national policy on travel expenses could leave some junior doctors more than £50 a week out of pocket, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
Trust dropped university after it failed nursing standards
A mental health and community trust had to select a new provider for its nursing training, after the university it had initially picked failed to meet the national regulator’s standards.
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: Is the centre finally about to get serious on workforce?
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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News
Regulator finds ‘challenging behaviour’ from trust’s senior staff
“Challenging behaviour” among senior clinicians and “disconnected” working between departments has been uncovered at a “special measures” trust at risk of losing some of its trainee doctors.
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News
Special measures trust at risk of losing trainees
A special measures trust is at risk of losing its trainee doctors in acute medical services in January due to gaps in its workforce.
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Expert Briefing
Christmas come early?
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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News
Government announces partial U-turn on student nurse funding
All nursing students will receive a cost of living grant of at least £5,000 with up to £3,000 extra available for regions or specialisms “struggling to recruit”, the government has announced.
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: Filling the leaky bucket
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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News
Hospital trust criticised for ‘intolerable’ waits and failure to learn from deaths
An independent review into mortality has exposed serious workforce problems and a failure to learn from deaths at a hospital trust.
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Comment
Consultants are not being supported to deliver the long-term plan
National leaders must act faster to change the payment mechanisms in the NHS, to allow more respiratory care to be delivered in the community, writes Binita Kane.
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News
Exclusive: Leaked NHSE/I workforce plan reveals reliance on nursing associates
National plans to increase nurse staffing by more than 40,000 depend on an assumption that recruiting thousands of new nursing associates will reduce “demand” for registered nurses by 10,000, according to modelling leaked to HSJ.
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Expert Briefing
Mindless retendering
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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News
Concerns raised over two new medical schools
The General Medical Council has raised concerns about two new medical schools which are in the process of recruiting their first students.
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Comment
We need a workforce fit for the needs of those living with chronic cancer
Policy makers should keep the increasing population with treatable but not curable cancer in mind and ensure there is a clear plan to grow and fund a cancer workforce fit for the future, exhorts Lynda Thomas
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: All change at HEE
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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News
Revealed: Third of trusts do not have clinical technology lead
A third of trusts are yet to appoint a chief clinical information officer, HSJ has found.
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News
HEE chief to step down after eight years
Health Education England’s chief executive has announced he is leaving the education and training provider at the end of next March.
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Comment
Infection prevention is not just the job of the NHS
“Home growing” staff is the key to an integrated infection prevention strategy, writes Liz Grogan
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News
‘Cost of living’ main reason why student nurses drop out
The lack of national funding to support the living costs of registered student nurses is the main factor behind the drop out rate from courses, a nursing education expert and leading academic has warned.