All Workforce articles – Page 262
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HSJ KnowledgeHow collaboration can take flight in the NHS
The aviation industry can teach the NHS about joined up working
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HSJ KnowledgeHelp young people get jobs with hospital apprenticeships
A scheme at one FT has significantly reduced staff turnover
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News'Link' between mortality rates and doctor sanctions to be probed
The General Medical Council has told HSJ it will investigate an apparent statistical link between high mortality rates and the numbers of doctors receiving a warning or sanction.
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NewsHunt criticises 'unacceptable and unjustified' NHS salaries
The health secretary has raised concern about senior manager pay and may impose a limit on the number of arm’s-length body staff earning more than £100,000.
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NewsBMA backs seven-day NHS service
The British Medical Association has said it now supports extending seven-day access to some NHS services.
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NewsNHS Direct to close
NHS Direct is to be completely wound up by the end of the financial year and its remaining business dispersed to other providers, it has been announced.
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NewsAudit urged for NHS property body as chair resigns
A Conservative MP has demanded a full audit of the organisation that runs the NHS property service after revealing it transferred funds for capital projects into day to day revenue budgets.
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NewsHospital takes legal advice over traveller camp
Health chiefs are taking legal advice to eject dozens of French travellers who infuriated front line NHS workers by setting up an encampment in a hospital car park.
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NewsNHS 'could be hit by immigration surcharge'
The NHS could end up having to foot the bill for an immigration surcharge imposed on foreign visitors to limit their impact on the NHS when it recruits staff from overseas, it has emerged.
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News'Francis effect' leads to thousands more nursing posts
Hospitals are trying to increase the number of nurses and healthcare assistants working on their wards in a trend being attributed to a growing focus on patient safety in the wake of the Francis report.
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Blogs
Managers − always look on the bright side
Despite cuts to their budget, social services leaders appear to be relentlessly optimistic
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NewsWhistleblowers to be interviewed by CQC inspectors
Whistleblowers will be actively sought out by Care Quality Commission inspection teams to help them form regulatory judgements about healthcare providers, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsBogus advert fraudsters are jailed
Five members of a criminal gang which made more than 200 attempts to defraud NHS organisations by demanding payment for adverts in bogus magazines with similar names to real ones – including HSJ – have been jailed.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe NHS has got talent: managing staff potential
Looking at tools to identify and develop talent in the service
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NewsNursing shortage drives hospitals overseas
More than a third of hospital trusts have turned to actively recruiting nurses from overseas as they struggle to keep wards adequately staffed, it has emerged.
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CommentStaff must be supported to put patient care first
The importance of listening to and supporting staff
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NewsDuty of candour moves closer with bill amendment
The government has paved the way for the introduction of a duty of candour through an amendment to the Care Bill – but the key question of when the duty would apply has been left open.