All Health Education England articles – Page 17
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NewsExclusive: Trusts urged to review 'advanced practice' staff
NHS organisations should review staff who have been given the title ‘advanced’ as part of their role and guard against ‘unconscious incompetence’, new guidance says.
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CommentProtect trainee doctors to protect patient safety
Annual trainee quality panels can help address bullying and other cultural and safety issues within local hospitals and training posts, say Zoe Oliphant and Iona Thorne
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NewsHunt: I still need to win NHS funding argument with chancellor
Jeremy Hunt has acknowledged more funding will be needed for the NHS but warned he has not yet won the argument with the chancellor.
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NewsExclusive: Government to announce single NHS workforce strategy
The health secretary will announce plans for a new national workforce strategy designed to help secure the long term supply of nurses and doctors for the NHS.
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HSJ LocalTrust cuts nurse numbers to make way for nursing associates
The board of a hospital trust in the West Midlands has agreed to reduce the numbers of registered nurses on its wards replacing them with nursing associates.
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NewsSTPs given targets for GP recruitment
Every sustainability and transformation partnership area has been set a target for the number of GPs it needs to recruit by 2020 by NHS England, HSJ has learned.
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NewsPeter Homa reveals next NHS role
Veteran NHS trust chief executive Peter Homa will become the first chair of the NHS Leadership Academy next month.
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NewsHEE retracts hundreds of job offers after email blunder
Hundreds of junior doctors had NHS job offers retracted yesterday evening due to an email blunder by Health Education England.
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NewsNHS trusts told to check unqualified staff are not working as 'nurses'
England’s most senior nurses have instructed NHS trusts to check whether they are employing unqualified care staff with job titles describing them as “nurses”, HSJ has learned.
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NewsHEE expects to beat record GP recruitment numbers
Health Education England is “on track” to exceed last year’s record GP trainee recruitment, a senior official has told HSJ.
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NewsResignations send stark warning to chief execs on A&E performance
Two acute trust chief executives have resigned today under pressure from ministers and NHS Improvement over consistently poor accident and emergency performance.
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NewsNHS bursary reform fails to increase student nurses
The government’s plan to expand the number of nurse training places by scrapping the NHS bursary appears to have failed, the latest data suggests.
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NewsGovernment releases cash in last minute push to expand NHS training
Universities and NHS trusts are being offered tens of thousands of pounds by Health Education England in a push to expand training places for nurses and other health professionals this year.
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NewsExclusive: DH commits millions in funding to expand nurse training
Ministers have committed to a minimum £16m additional funding for new clinical placements for thousands of nursing students at NHS trusts, the Department of Health has told HSJ.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: The acid test for the government's mental health promises
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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NewsGovernment promises 20,000 new posts in mental health
Government pledges 21,000 new mental health posts by 2020-21 Health secretary Jeremy Hunt launches the long-awaited mental health workforce strategy The strategy promises 21,000 new posts, including thousands of more psychiatrists and mental health nurses The government today announced it would create 21,000 new posts in the mental ...
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NewsFund to reduce baby deaths oversubscribed by 25 per cent
A training fund set up by the Department of Health to reduce baby deaths in England was oversubscribed by 25 per cent after every trust running maternity units submitted bids.
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CommentIncreasing the number of mental health staff must be a priority
Kate Lovett on the need for efficient and trained psychiatrists to support the mental health needs of the population
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NewsRevealed: £30m tender to recruit GPs from overseas
NHS England is preparing to tender a framework worth £30m for companies to source 500 GPs from abroad to help tackle the NHS’s shortage, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: NHS ‘needs £100m’ social care boost to hit A&E target
Clifford Mann says extra social care cash needs to go on DTOCs or NHS won’t meet A&E goal NHS England A&E lead says huge boost in emergency staff needed Mann urges HEE to extend emergency medicine recuitment programme NHS bosses must persuade councils to spend £100m of new ...