All Education/training articles – Page 94
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Staff grade doctors seek assurance on career progression
The chair of the British Medical Association's staff grade and associate specialist committee Mohib Khan has written to health minister Lord Warner to seek assurances that funding will be provided to allow staff grade and associate specialist doctors training to become consultants.To read the letter click ...
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Health Foundation extends Safer Patients Initiative
Twenty hospitals will today receive £165,000 each under a scheme to improve patient safety. Funded by the Health Foundation charity, the Safer Patients Initiative will see a tailored package of support for each hospital including access to international experts. The four hospitals in the scheme since its launch in 2004 ...
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NHS financial crisis squeezing medical education, BMA warns
Patient care could be affected by cuts to medical training and education, according to the British Medical Association. Funding for study leave and academic posts in medical schools has been cut to help tackle deficits. The BMA junior doctors committee has written to health secretary ...
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Infection control risks revealed
Fewer than half of NHS trusts have a ringfenced budged for infection control, and nearly half of respondents said staff are not adequately trained in infection control, according to a survey carried out by the Patients Association.The survey, which polled directors of nursing, infection control nurses, and microbiologists, also revealed ...
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Tobacco control: Fresh air for the North East
There are encouraging reports from an independent tobacco control agency set up in an area with the highest adult smoking prevalence in the country
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HSJ Knowledge
Major research initiative launched for policy makers and managers
The Health Foundation's five-year, £2.5m QQUIP research initiative to help healthcare policy makers, managers, clinicians, researchers and patient groups to better understand and make informed decisions about how to improve healthcare quality will go online next month.
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HSJ Knowledge
Stephen Thornton on global patient safety challenges
'I was struck by how hospitals in Malawi and the UK face similar challenges in making healthcare safer for patients' The chief executive of the Health Foundation and our new regular columnist discusses the global challenges of patient safety and some possible responses
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Kieran Walshe on professional regulation
'It will be much easier for NHS organisations to deal effectively and constructively with clinical performance problems'
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HSJ Knowledge
HR boss - a job in a million
Good human resources practice can lead to lower costs and reduced waiting times. Carol Harris reports on a conference for NHS HR management training scheme graduates
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HSJ Knowledge
The anatomy of learning
A choice of modules provides a flexible education that suits both individuals and services. Peter Rolland and Sue Staples describe how an academic pathway was set up
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NICE issues training guidance for parents of children with 'conduct disorders'
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has unveiled joint guidelines on training programmes for parents of children with 'conduct disorders'.