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One thing leads to another
It is all systems go with the Leadership Centre for Health again, which aims to nurture a new generation of excellence. Lynn Eaton meets the woman setting it up and her deputy
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Coach outings
The new Leadership Centre For Health will build on previous NHS initiatives to develop management careers, says Barbara Millar
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Many happy returns
Return-to-practice initiatives for nurses are proving highly successful, but they still have some way to go to understand those who take them. Thelma Agnew reports
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Taking the rough with the smooth
The return-to-practice course run by Oxford Brookes University helped Melanie Miller-Smith, 43, to restart her nursing career a year ago, after a 10-year break. Having spent nine years living abroad with her husband and three children, she was eager to get back to nursing when the family returned to the ...
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The rebirth of a career
Mother-of-12 Jeanette Thewlis, 49, has recently returned to midwifery after an absence of nearly 25 years. She left the profession to have her family, and it is her family - in particular, the expense of putting the older children through university - that has prompted her return to paid employment.
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The bigger picture
How much of an impact have NVQs had in the health service - and will they be superseded by the new individual learning accounts with their broader outlook? Thelma Agnew reports
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Up to the job: the NVQ story
The government set up the NVQ system in the late 1980s in a bid to 'upskill' the country's workforce and replace a chaotic range of occupational qualifications with a consistent and rigorously assessed set of standards. The standards on which NVQs are based are created by national training organisations, employer-led ...
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Worth a second lucre
Gaining in popularity by the year, MBAs are becoming ever more diverse and are meeting the demands for more flexible ways of learning. Barbara Millar reports
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After the MBA: what are your prospects?
The Association of MBAs recently published its fourth survey of the salary and career prospects of MBA graduates.
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Fine delivery
The technicians will bring us all the information we want, but it will not be any good unless we know what to do with it. Lyn Whitfield reports
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A working arrangement
It has been a big year for human resources. Lynn Eaton examines what the NHS plan and the HR strategy mean for training
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Evening out the odds
With the help of a training and staff appraisal system, Nottingham City Hospital trust has overhauled the way its staffing in theatre is arranged. Traditionally, the nurses would only work for the surgeons and the operating department practitioners for the anaesthetists. Each had different responsibilities and was on different rates ...
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Jobs for the girls
Bradford health authority is working on new ways of developing staff on a multidisciplinary basis - and tackling recruitment problems at the same time. Jan Lee, assistant head teacher at Belle Vue School in Bradford, is on secondment to the HA two days a week. She has set up initiatives ...
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Down to the nitty-gritty
The government has given a clear commitment to improved training. The NHS plan, issued in July last year, says: 'The strength of the NHS lies in its staff, whose skills, expertise and dedication underpin all that it does.
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CHC concessions signify first deviation from NHS plan
The government has been forced to make substantial concessions over patient involvement and representation in the first significant departure from the NHS plan.
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Successor to 'irreplaceable'Reeves is a former finance deputy director
The NHS Executive has appointed Richard Douglas, one of its former deputy finance directors, to replace outgoing director Colin Reeves.
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RCN reneges on staff pay award while in talks over improved deal for top job
The Royal College of Nursing has been accused of being 'insensitive' to its staff, following its decision to cut an agreed pay award for its workforce while negotiating an improved pay package for a new general secretary from the US.
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Bristol report 'withheld' until after election
The Bristol inquiry has announced that its final report will not be completed until the end of March, when it will be sent to health secretary Alan Milburn.
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monitor
Well, Monitor has learnt something new this week! And hacks and hackettes of the good ship HSJ are kicking themselves after their sister magazine beat them to the scoop of the century. In a revelation worthy of Woodward and Bernstein, Nursing Times uncovered the TRUTH about nurses and sex. Apparently, ...