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Comment'The NHS needs strong leadership at all levels'
Skilled and confident leaders are vital in helping the NHS overcome the challenges it faces, writes Institute of Leadership and Management chief executive Charles Elvin.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow international health links can help the NHS workforce develop
Brenda Longstaff explores how health links between the NHS and developing countries deliver benefits to the NHS workforce.
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HSJ KnowledgeOpen your ears to whistleblowing
National policy is in place to encourage whistleblowing, but employers need their own strategies to promote a truly transparent culture. Jennifer Taylor finds out how to remove the barriers to openness.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: immigrants don't hurt the NHS; dentists do
Is NHS Protect targeting low-hanging fruit?
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NewsCQC whistleblower faces sack
The Care Quality Commission board member who gave highly critical evidence about the regulator to the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry is facing the sack, it has emerged.
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NewsMPs criticise delays in education and training reform
Ministers must provide more detail on their plans to reform health education and training to avoid service disruption and putting patients at risk, the health select committee has warned.
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NewsGMB members overwhelmingly reject pension deal
Thousands of NHS workers in the GMB union have voted to reject the government’s “final” pension deal by a majority of 96.5 per cent.
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NewsPublic health staff to keep NHS pension
Public health staff who transfer to local government next year will retain their NHS pension, it has been revealed. However, it remains uncertain whether they will keep the pension if they subsequently change jobs within public health.
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NewsUnpaid work experience scheme to be extended to more hospitals
A scheme that gives unpaid job seekers the chance to provide patient care in the wards of a hospital is set to be extended, it has emerged.
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NewsPension reform deterring would-be doctors - BMA
Junior doctors have been urged to fight for their pensions amid fears government reforms could dissuade talented students from studying medicine.
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Burns go-ahead for 2012 clinical excellence awards
NHS doctors will be able to get their 2012 round of Clinical Excellence Awards after health minister Simon Burns gave the go ahead.
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Blogs
The fall of the Roman Empire
Following a humiliating defeat, those in charge blame the rank and file.
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News
RCN prepared to battle government over regional pay plans
The Royal College of Nursing is “prepared to take the government on” in its plans to impose regional pay in the NHS, according to the college’s chief executive and general secretary Peter Carter.
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NewsNurses and midwives face 60pc hike in registration fee
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has proposed increasing the annual registrants’ fee to £120 from the start of next year.
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NewsSenior NHS figures shun 'poisoned chalice' CQC job
The head of the General Social Care Council and a Department of Health director general are among those believed to have applied to become chief executive of the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe issues facing 'suitable alternative employment' changes
Sejal Raja considers the issues faced by employers when seeking to redeploy employees and justifying that the new role is suitable alternative employment to avoid a redundancy payment being made.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to improve commissioning for long term conditions
Don Redding of National Voices identifies three types of people who can enhance the commissioning of services for people with long term conditions.
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NewsMiliband: attacks on nursing are 'totally unfair'
Attacking the nursing profession over isolated examples of bad practice “is totally unfair”, Labour leader Ed Miliband has told HSJ’s sister title.
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NewsDoctors voting on pensions strike action
Doctors across the UK have begun voting on whether to take industrial action for the first time in more than three decades.
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NewsRCN chief 'fears' for commissioners negotiating with private sector
NHS commissioners will be “taken to the cleaners” by private sector providers, the head of the Royal College of Nursing has claimed.