All Workforce articles – Page 274
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Blogs
Senior management was ‘incompetent and reckless’
Blair McPherson on how we should judge managers
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CommentThe NHS must gear up to meet the challenge of workforce planning
Trusts should take a leaf from the car industry
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NewsInvestigation raises questions over UK pathology services
Improvements are needed to the way pathology departments across the country are organised and quality assessed, a Royal College of Pathologists investigation has found.
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News
Almost 900 consultants receive excellence awards
Almost 900 medical consultants in England and Wales have been awarded clinical excellence awards for 2012, it has been announced.
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Blogs
A rising management star crashes and burns
Are managers being given too much credit for success and too much blame for failure?
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HSJ Local
Bleep system replaced at Leicester Hospitals
WORKFORCE: University Hospitals of Leicester has replaced its traditional out of hours ‘bleep’ process with a hi-tech mobile system to provide better care 24 hours a day.
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HSJ KnowledgeStrengthening NHS employee engagement post-Francis
‘Listening events’ must not be a substitute for effective management
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NewsFrancis response: The teacher barring system coming to NHS management
The government said yesterday that a “barring” regulation system for teachers – introduced last year – could form the basis of a proposed system for senior NHS managers. HSJhas looked at the basics of the Teaching Agency system, and how it might apply in the NHS.
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Blogs
High-level anger management
There’s nothing wrong with managers being angry about poor care, but they still need to be in control.
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NewsFrancis response: No statutory regulation for healthcare assistants
Healthcare assistants will not face statutory regulation, the government has announced, but they will be subject to national minimum training and a code of conduct.
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NewsFrancis response: Civil servants must have 'frontline experience'
All Department of Health ministers and civil servants will in future have to have “real and extensive frontline experience of caring for patients”, according to the government response to the Francis report.
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NewsFrancis response: Failing managers could be barred
Senior NHS managers and non-executive directors who “let their patients and the NHS down” could be barred from holding high-level positions in future, under proposals set out in the government’s response to the Francis report.
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NewsTweeting doctors 'should give ID'
Doctors must identify themselves by name on Twitter if their profile alludes to their profession, new guidance suggests.
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NewsCaring experience could be compulsory for new nurse recruits
Ministers are considering whether to require aspiring nurses to complete a year’s caring experience before they are accepted onto a degree course.
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HSJ Local
New medical director appointed at Gateshead FT
WORKFORCE: A specialist in gynaecological cancers has been appointed as the new medical director at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead.
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HSJ Local
Luton CCG names AO
STRUCTURE: NHS Luton CCG has appointed Carol Hill as accountable officer.
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HSJ KnowledgeChallenges faced by NHS clinical directors
Clinical director can be a lonely role but it is essential to safety
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NewsBan on gagging clauses is 'smoke and mirrors'
High level announcements about restrictions on the use of confidentiality clauses have “limited significance” but may help to clarify their effect for staff, lawyers have told HSJ.
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LeaderWho guards the NHS’s reputation now?
David Nicholson’s letter to directors prompts two questions