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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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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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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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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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NHS Direct 'will need 15,000 more nurses'
The new deadline of December 2000 for extending NHS Direct, the government's nurse-led telephone helpline throughout England is 'challenging but feasible' according to one of the scheme's advisers.
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Fraud costs vulnerable people 1m a year
At least 1,500 elderly and vulnerable people are being defrauded of up to 1m each year by people, including nursing home staff, who are trusted to take over their financial affairs.
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Some thought Ann Widdecombe's line, 'The Conservatives are, and always have been, 100 per cent committed to the values of our health services', was a joke. It wasn't.
She had a dig at public health minister Tessa Jowell's alleged vanity - 'now I could understand it if she had my good looks'.
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22 October 1948
The numbers of nurses and domestic staff have been rising. Full-time nursing and midwifery staff in hospitals in England and Wales have increased by 2,000 in 12 months. Last June the total was 117,741 compared with 115,529 a year earlier. Part-timers over the same period rose by nearly 7,000 to ...
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Milburn finds 9m for PCG recruitment
Primary care groups have won a 9.1m cash boost to recruit board members and staff before they start running in April next year.
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Delegates may have worried about the future of managers in the reforms. But one a more local issue they were absolutely clear. The merger between their two organisations was widely welcomed.
The new Institute of Healthcare Management will bring together both the old Institute of Health Services Management and the Association of Managers in General Practice.
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Partnership in Action proposals
More joint working at strategic planning, service commissioning and service provision level closely monitored through either the Commission for Health Improvement, the Social Services Inspectorate or the Audit Commission, with joint national priorities and national performance frameworks.
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Royal College threatens A&E closure in Manchester
An accident and emergency department is threatened with closure after a critical report from the Royal College of Surgeons.
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Can pay, won't pay Who will pick up The Working Time Directive tab? Not us, say agencies
Someone, somewhere has to pay for the Working Time Directive. Alas, many of the staffing agencies on which the NHS relies so heavily appear to have decided that it won't be them (see News, page ?).
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Agencies cash-in on working time limit
The NHS is facing a bill of at least 100m as employment agencies seek to exploit nursing shortages and the new European working time directive to drive up the costs of hiring agency staff.
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Another degree of support for staff education
I read with interest the brief item on collaboration between Ashworth and Sheffield Hallam University to offer a degree in forensic care (News, page 4, 27 August).
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Remember the halcyon days when Dobbo could drop a personal letter to a million NHS staff asking for suggestions
Remember the halcyon days when Dobbo could drop a personal letter to a million NHS staff asking for suggestions - and not be overwhelmed with anatomically inventive ideas about where to stick it? You may, but the Department of Health is trying to forget. To recap, Dobbo sent batches of ...