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The times they are a-changin'
The working time directive will cost the NHS millions and impose heavy new responsibilities on employers. John Northrop and Keith Hearn explain
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Dr JAF Napier of the Welsh Blood Service, who confuses income and salary (Letters, 24 September)
Dr JAF Napier of the Welsh Blood Service, who confuses income and salary (Letters, 24 September), urges that I be burnt at the stake for suggesting half of all consultants earn more than the average of £100,000. It is, of course, possible that the private practice gravy-train slows significantly after ...
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Chancellor finds extra £250m to cope with winter pressures
Chancellor Gordon Brown found an extra £250m 'winter cash' for the NHS in his pre-budget statement on Tuesday.
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I read with interest Steve Ainsworth's article 'Phoney wars' (15 October).
I read with interest Steve Ainsworth's article 'Phoney wars' (15 October). Although the original intention of the writers of the appropriate part of the Statement of Fees and Allowances (SFA or 'Red Book') was that 'telephone advice' would not attract a fee, it is unimportant as the wording did not ...
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The Government's policy of charging for some social care services might be reviewed if it could be proved that charging was 'cost ineffective,' a senior Department of Health official has suggested.
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Toolkit
A toolkit to help managers and clinicians work more effectively together to meet clinical governance requirements has been launched at a conference by the Institute of Health Services Management. It will be published in December after feedback from the launch and will cost 25 to non-members and 20 to members.
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Shift workers
The debate about power, responsibility and accountability between chief executives and consultants has been raging ever since the changes in the structure and organisation of the NHS first carried out in response to the Girths reforms in the late 1980s. The new doctrine of clinical governance will effect a fundamental ...
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Redundancy
In 22 years' work in human resources, Ian Chalmers has been made redundant four times. Three of those occasions came when he was working for private sector companies. He has also seen his employment in the NHS threatened twice by organisational change.
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Opportunities knock
If the NHS really is an equal opportunities employer, surely it is unnecessary to say so in job advertisements, argues Steve Ainsworth
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Health visitors scoop modernisation fund grant
Health visitors have won 1m from the NHS modernisation fund to develop new ways of working. Public health minister Tessa Jowell said the health visitors' share of the 5bn pot would be used to 'build practice on the clear evidence of what works'. Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine ...
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Unions will scrutinise PFI firms' track record
Health minister Alan Milburn has issued details of a 'three-point plan' to 'better protect staff' involved in private finance initiative projects.
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In the firing line
Decades of service to the NHS are no longer any protection against redundancy. And many managers feel they have been poorly treated in the process. Barbara Millar reports.
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Dobson pushes for more rehabilitation
Health secretary Frank Dobson last week called for higher priority for rehabilitation services to stop illness and injury leading to permanent disablement.
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Teenage mothers not 'from deprived group of myth'
Teenage mothers come from a wide variety of backgrounds and are not the deprived group of popular mythology, researchers argued last week. A Policy Studies Institute report, published days after former prime minister Baroness Thatcher launched an attack on single parents, says young mothers 'should not be stigmatised' and calls ...