Workforce – Page 446
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Neil Goodwin on building working relationships
What do teenage children, marriage and friendships have in common when thinking about work? They all offer excellent opportunities for developing relationship skills in the workplace.
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Find the funds to keep violence in check
Uniquely among the main care disciplines, mental health services routinely have to manage a triangle of potentially violent relationships: patients attacking staff, patients attacking each other and - when it comes to restraining aggression - staff using force on patients.
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Primary care leaders call GP resistance 'unhelpful'
Primary care leaders have joined the argument over extended hours after GPs warned they may refuse to take part in local audits on opening times.
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Violence increases but training in restraint techniques is still on hold
Urgent proposals for dealing with violent patients are still awaiting government funding 10 years after the death that sparked them.HSJ has discovered that a national training scheme for staff in acute mental health wards has been on hold for years, despite fresh evidence of increasing violent behaviour.
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Half of mental health nurses assaulted, audit reveals
More than half of nurses on mental health wards have been physically assaulted at work, according to an audit of violence in mental health services published today.The audit - the second national assessment of its kind - covered more than 200 NHS and independent mental health units and was carried ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Pension changes save employers £430m a year
Pension scheme changes that were agreed between NHS Employers and NHS trade unions will save employers £430m a year, according to a government actuary report published in December.
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HSJ Knowledge
Review of unsocial hours payments
The NHS Staff Council is recommending its proposals for a new system of unsocial hours payments to the Department of Health.
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HSJ Knowledge
Equal pay claims
Employers should already be aware that all equal pay claims involving a legal challenge to Agenda for Change have been stayed by order of the Tribunals. This order, however, applies only to the part of the claim involving the challenge to Agenda for Change. Employers should consult with their lawyers ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Allied health professionals and the 18-week target
Allied health professionals play a vital role in delivering services to millions of patients, but there is still potential to use their expertise in assessment, diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation to even greater effect.
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HSJ Knowledge
Allied health professionals and the 18-week target
Allied health professionals play a vital role in delivering services to millions of patients, but there is still potential to use their expertise in assessment, diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation to even greater effect.
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HSJ Knowledge
Review of unsocial hours payments
The NHS Staff Council is recommending its proposals for a new system of unsocial hours payments to the Department of Health.
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HSJ Knowledge
Equal pay claims
Employers should already be aware that all equal pay claims involving a legal challenge to Agenda for Change have been stayed by order of the Tribunals. This order, however, applies only to the part of the claim involving the challenge to Agenda for Change. Employers should consult with their lawyers ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Making the most of human resources in the health sector
NHS managers can add value to their organisations by recognising that human resources teams are integral to corporate success, not peripheral, writes Greg Brown
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS team wins Investors in Children accreditation
Staff at Hart Lodge, part of the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys trust, have become the first NHS child learning disability team to gain Investors in Children accreditation.
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HSJ Knowledge
Are we all knowledge workers now?
I can remember first coming across the term 'knowledge worker' about 10 years ago at a conference and assumed it was the latest management buzzphrase imported from a consultancy or Ivy League professor.
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HSJ Knowledge
Are we all knowledge workers now?
I can remember first coming across the term 'knowledge worker' about 10 years ago at a conference and assumed it was the latest management buzzphrase imported from a consultancy or Ivy League professor.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS team wins Investors in Children accreditation
Staff at Hart Lodge, part of the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys trust, have become the first NHS child learning disability team to gain Investors in Children accreditation.
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HSJ Knowledge
Making the most of human resources in the health sector
NHS managers can add value to their organisations by recognising that human resources teams are integral to corporate success, not peripheral, writes Greg Brown
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HSJ Knowledge
David Amos on the principles of equality
Equality and diversity should be at the heart of workforce planning
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HSJ Knowledge
Engaging clinicians in NHS leadership
John Clark and colleagues report on a project that aims to break down bunker-like regimes and involve medical staff in trust leadership