Workforce – Page 408
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HSJ Knowledge
Working Hours: two ways to reduce junior doctors' hours
Two different trusts have focused on ways of working within specialties as the route to compliance on junior doctors’ hours
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HSJ Knowledge
Working Hours: how to work less without compromising training
Rethinking its emergency service enabled Homerton University Hospital foundation trust to maintain junior doctors’ training time while achieving compliance on hours
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News
VAT changes prompt concern over NHS staff costs
Tax changes have sparked fears NHS trusts will be hit with significant increases in agency staff costs.
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News
General Medical Council elects new chair
Peter Rubin is to take over from Graeme Catto as chair of the General Medical Council.
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HSJ Knowledge
Book Review: Get Everything Done and Still Have Time to Play
Taming the demands of a hectic life is within your grasp, says James Potter
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HSJ Knowledge
Working hours target deadline fast approaching
Now is the time to get back on schedule and ensure your trust is ready for the August deadline, since delays could bring penalties.Ingrid Torjesen reports
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Comment
What makes a good NHS non-executive director?
NHS non-executive directors used to be unfairly portrayed as part of the “old boys network” - cronies and fat cats who needed to fill their time between trips to the golf club - or as well intentioned members of the community who, when they were not at the hospital, were ...
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Comment
Sheila Williams: management coaching can stop problems escalating
I was facilitating a workshop on performance management with a group of experienced NHS managers recently. I got to the part about dealing with performance problems when they arise and how using a coaching approach often prevents the problem from escalating.
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News
Foundation trust appoints new chief executive
Tom Cahill has been announced as the new chief executive of the Hertfordshire Partnership foundation trust.
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News
New staff vetting regulations delayed
The government is to delay the introduction of new safeguarding regulations for 11 million staff working with vulnerable adults and children.
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News
NICE to review GP quality incentives
The Department of Health announced yesterday that it will be handing responsibility for reviewing clinical indicators included in the GP quality and outcome framework to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
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News
'Corporate failure' of ex-Bromley chief at Cornwall
An independent report has accused the chief executive and board members at Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust of serious failures.
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News
Cancer patient needs not being met
Four out of five nurses think the needs of people living with or after having cancer are not being met, according to a survey by charity Macmillan Cancer Support and HSJ sister magazine Nursing Times.
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News
Enquiry appoints first non-clinical chair
The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death has appointed the first non-clinical chair in its 20-year history.
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News
London PCT and council to share chief executive
Hammersmith and Fulham primary care trust and the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham are to begin operating with a joint chief executive and integrated management team.
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Comment
Jenny Rogers on NHS jobs gloom
I have been observing how some of my most talented clients are dealing with the current gloom and uncertainty.
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Community
Media Watch: NHS pay scandals
City bankers were keeping a low profile this week as thousands of G20 protesters marched through the streets; NHS chiefs may want to follow suit after the latest uproar over pay.
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News
Bullying 'permeating' patient care, warns Healthcare Commission
A bullying culture in the NHS is “permeating the delivery of care”, Healthcare Commission chair Sir Ian Kennedy has told HSJ.
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News
Pay award creates them and us culture, say NHS managers
The government’s decision to impose a 1.5 per cent pay rise on NHS board directors is divisive and “wrong”, managers are arguing.
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Comment
Julia Tybura on communication and patient safety
Having just returned from a week’s winter sun, I was reflecting on one of my holiday reading selections, Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. It struck me how his case studies on paddy fields and plane crashes resonated with my experiences in the NHS.