All Education/training articles – Page 92

  • News

    Winners of the Health Foundation Leadership Fellows award scheme

    2007-01-15T00:00:00Z

    Sixteen healthcare professionals have been selected to join the Health Foundation's prestigious Leadership Fellows award scheme.

  • News

    GP contract talks collapse over pay

    2007-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Talks about next year's GP contract have broken down. The British Medical Association said on Tuesday that the offer made by NHS Employers was 'not sufficient' and called on the doctors and dentists review body to recommend an across-the-board uplift for GPs under next year's contract.

  • News

    Tories claim government has lost faith in SHAs' control of the workforce

    2007-01-11T00:00:00Z

    The shadow health secretary has accused the government of losing confidence in the ability of strategic health authorities to manage workforce planning.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Helen Bevan on transformational learning

    2007-01-08T00:00:00Z

    Every so often, I come across research or evidence that gives me profound insight into why things happen the way they do. I experienced just such an epiphany in December, when I led a workshop on transformational learning at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Forum, the largest healthcare improvement gathering ...

  • News

    DoH plans mark rewriting of relationship with professions

    2007-01-04T00:00:00Z

    If one image of the dole queue helped finish off Labour in 1979, just imagine what might happen if the jobless wore white coats. The prospect of making large numbers of consultant posts redundant is one rarely articulated in public. That changes this week with HSJrevealing ...

  • News

    High take-up for optician training

    2007-01-03T00:00:00Z

    More than 90 per cent of opticians met the requirement for continuing education and training (CET) by the 31 December 2006 deadline.Final figures for the first cycle released by the General Optical Council show that 95 per cent of optometrists, 89 per cent of dispensing opticians and 86 per cent ...

  • News

    BMA hits back at training 'cuts'

    2007-01-03T00:00:00Z

    The British Medical Association has raised concerns about the current situation in medical education and voiced opposition to the cap on student fees being lifted in its response to the Commons education and skills committee inquiry, published today The doctors' union is concerned that medical ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    What's quality?

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    With the emphasis on financial turnaround and the 18-week target, the primary focus of most organisations is finance and delivery. Patient experience and service quality do not seem to get the same attention. But does better-quality healthcare cost more money, or less?

  • Comment

    Media Watch: nurses protest

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Avenging angels hit the headlines and the streets this weekend as they came out in force to protest at, among other things, a below-inflation pay rise.

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The focus has well and truly turned to the NHS, as it once again becomes the battleground for the next election'

  • News

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Thousands of junior doctors are to be shipped abroad, The Daily Telegraph said this week as it claimed 'up to 10,000 young doctors unable to find NHS jobs could be offered voluntary work overseas'.

  • Comment

    Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on teaching hospitals

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'It is likely that the teaching hospital group will segment into different roles'

  • News

    How to run health networks for young people

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has released a report calling for health services for children and young people to be delivered within networks of care.

  • News

    Are GPs making inappropriate referrals to orthopaedic surgeries?

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    General practitioners have a pivotal role in providing medical care for the NHS - acute referrals to various hospital specialties are often arranged by them. But inappropriate referrals can cause unnecessary inconvenience for the patients and affect the target times for care provision in A&E.

  • Comment

    Early learning is key weapon in obesity war

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Concerns are mounting over rising obesity, but is enough being done to slim down the problem, asks Liz Kendall

  • News

    DoH: public health must 'focus on outcomes'

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    NHS public health professionals must become effective commissioners and beef up their analytical skills if new joint strategic needs assessment work alongside local government is to be effective.

  • News

    SHAs slash training fund for doctors

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Training of doctors is at risk because strategic health authorities cut training budgets by millions of pounds last year, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Conservative Party.

  • Comment

    Media Watch: junior doctors

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'How could they be so stupid?' asked the Daily Mail as it berated the government for failing to ensure junior doctors will be guaranteed jobs this summer in the Department of Health's new recruitment process.

  • News

    Thousands of junior doctors start new jobs

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Hospitals were yesterday faced with thousands of junior doctors starting new jobs at the same time.

  • Comment

    Wanted: doctors to help redesign services

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The need for more doctors to take on a management role has almost become a mantra, yet progress has been painfully slow. Penny Dash and Pam Garside examine the challenges and opportunities