All Workforce articles – Page 322
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NewsBoard meetings take few decisions, report finds
Less than 2 per cent of agenda items presented to trust board meetings require decisions, a study of more than 1,000 NHS board papers has found.
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HSJ KnowledgeSafeguarding: protecting the almost adult
PCTs must review their processes around safeguarding - particularly for patients in their late teens - say Stephen Cox and John Holden
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NewsNew talks to begin on NHS pension contributions
Health service unions are to enter into discussions with Department of Health officials on increasing public sector pension contributions, ministers have announced today.
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Blogs
Your flight has been cancelled (by your employer)
When staff shortages mean organisations cancel their employees’ holidays, there are bound to be issues with people management.
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Blogs
Bridging the financial gap
The challenge of reducing spend continues and managers are looking ever more creatively at how to reduce the bottom line. I think I may have found a solution!
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HSJ Local
Sussex Partnership meeting all ‘priority indicators’
PERFORANCE: Sussex Partnership is meeting all its priority service indicators, its board of directors were told this month.
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NewsDoctors warned of social media risk
Doctors have been warned not to make friends with their patients on social networking sites.
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HSJ Local
Heatherwood FT sickness rate costs £720,000 in one month
WORKFORCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has reported that it lost 3,321 working days in April to sickness, at a cost of £720,000.
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NewsPHE chief exec to be appointed by April 2012
The government says it expects to have a Public Health England chief executive in post by next April.
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NewsPublic health directors 'expected' to report directly to council chief execs, says DH
The government has confirmed that it “expects” directors of public health to be directly accountable to council chief executives when public health functions transfer to local authorities.
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HSJ KnowledgeManaging NHS mergers: top tips
Those overseeing NHS mergers can learn useful lessons from other industries
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NewsHSJ launches improved jobs site for managers
HSJ has this week launched an improved jobs site for managers and health professionals looking to develop their career in the healthcare sector.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: the finance director's job interview
“May I recap,” she said. “If I’m appointed finance director of the trust, my main deliverable is a financial strategy for foundation trust status within two years?”
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LeaderLansley’s defence of management cuts is disingenuous and dangerous
“I try to avoid saying things that are capable of misinterpretation,” Andrew Lansley told HSJ last week.
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NewsCommissioning brain drain ‘stripping assets’
HSJ research reveals for the first time the extent of the brain drain caused in the past year by paying off primary care trust managers - half of whom were either clinicians or experts in commissioning and finance.
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NewsLansley heralds change in size and role of acutes
Andrew Lansley has used an HSJ interview to signal significant changes in the size and role of acute hospitals, although he insisted there was no certainty that hospitals would close.
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NewsEaston: no quality in many savings plans
The man responsible for driving the NHS’s £20bn quality, innovation, productivity and prevention savings plan has warned that some schemes being pursued under its banner have “no semblance of quality in them at all”.
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NewsCameron accused of breaking NHS cash promise
The prime minister’s “personal promise” to give the NHS a real rise in funding “is being broken”, shadow health secretary John Healey has claimed.
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HSJ KnowledgeSupporting surgery: how to get the best out of locum surgeons
The best and safest surgery is delivered by settled teams so it makes sense to provide well managed support for locum surgeons. Chris Milford offers some guidelines for hospitals.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to get the best outcomes when measuring productivity
Effective use of metrics to drive workforce productivity improvement means carefully defining the inputs and outcomes you need, say Rachael Charlton and colleagues.