Workforce – Page 426
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New tool to assess patient involvement
The Social Care Institute for Excellence has developed an audit tool to help service providers assess how they involve people in the way they run services.
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Latest data on consultant and nurse pay
The NHS Information Centre has published estimates of annual basic pay and total earnings for NHS staff based on payments between January and March 2008.
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Former trust chief suppresses pay details
The former interim chief executive of a hospital trust has stopped it publishing details of his pay.
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Trust staff go unpunished for patient data snooping
Trusts are failing to punish staff caught snooping on patients' records, NHS Employers has revealed.
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Workforce head Clare Chapman talks to HSJ
Department of Health workforce director general Clare Chapman stressed the importance of the role of senior managers in transforming the health service at the NHS Confederation conference. HSJ spoke to her about the challenges facing the workforce.
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Interim managers in the NHS
Paul Fleming introduces a flexible breed of manager called in at times of change
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Jenny Rogers on leaders' illusions
Leadership is essentially a smoke and mirrors illusion. In a leader's best moments, we project on to him or her all the qualities we wish we had ourselves or long for in a boss.
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Management coaching: project you
Isobel Gowan explains how she helped a client tackle a lack of self esteem and worth
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Anyone here a doctor who speaks nurse?
Tower of Babel-esque communication problems in the NHS are more than just a nuisance - they cost lives. How can the service prevent acronyms, tribes and egos putting patients at unavoidable risk, asks Mark Gould
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Senior NHS managers must listen more, say staff
NHS workers have highlighted poor relationships with senior managers as a key concern in a staff survey for the Department of Health.
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Confed warning to staff who break data rules
Employers at the NHS Confederation conference have been warned not to let staff off the hook over data breaches.
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HSJ Knowledge
Increasing productivity in nursing
In a programme that pre-empted the Productive Ward initiative by a year, Ipswich Hospital trust improved its nursing services by changing the ward sister role
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Uphold NHS values, Clare Chapman tells Confed
Universal NHS values are needed to quell fears that the service is becoming 'industrialised', the head of NHS workforce has claimed at the NHS Confederation conference.
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Unite members vote for strike ballot
NHS members of the union Unite have voted for a ballot on industrial action after rejecting the government's three-year pay offer.
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Invest in HR to save lives, managers told
Chief executives at the NHS Confederation annual conference have been urged to promote human resources issues to reduce deaths and improve patient care.
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Staff fearful as mental health trust replaces board members
A 'brutal culling' of board members at a mental health trust has left staff fearing for their jobs.
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Union welcomes pay deal for managers
Top NHS managers are set to get a 2.2 per cent pay increase this year after the government accepted the recommendations of the senior salaries review body.
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NHS exploiting refugee doctors, says BMA
The talents of refugee and asylum-seeking doctors are being wasted because they are not being supported to work in the NHS, the British Medical Association has claimed.
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A local perspective on Darzi
As the final report on Lord Darzi's next stage review draws close, Cynthia Bower examines how Skills for Health is already helping to drive change at a local level
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Career aspirations: what younger managers want
Long-held beliefs that Generation Y is self-absorbed, disloyal and impatient are a myth, according to a report published this month by the Chartered Management Institute.