All Workforce articles – Page 333
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HSJ KnowledgeTomorrow's NHS productivity initiatives need to avoid today's mistakes
Recent productivity initiatives in the NHS aren’t creating the long-term benefit they need to. Amnis managing director Mark Eaton looks at the common problems affecting productivity programmes, and how best to address them.
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NewsMonitor chair warns against 'inappropriate influence' on pensions
Newly appointed Monitor chair David Bennett has warned politicians against imposing “inappropriate influence” in debates over whether NHS pensions are blocking competition.
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HSJ KnowledgeBeing prepared: practical and legal advice in managing industrial action
As cost saving measures begin to tell on staff numbers and terms and conditions, the partnership working model between employers and the principal unions in the NHS looks set for testing times, write Beachcroft LLP partners Neil Bhan and Guy Bredenkamp.
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HSJ Local
Mid Staffs making ‘significant progress’ on nurse recruitment
WORKFORCE: The foundation has continued to increase its workforce, particularly for nursing staff, despite media coverage of the ongoing public inquiry into previous failures at the organisation.
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HSJ Local
North Staffs mental health trust way behind on staff appraisals
WORKFORCE: The mental health trust has fallen significantly behind on its target for staff performance development reviews.
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NewsNational competency standards to regulate manager performance
Senior managers “who let people down” will be held to account by a national list of standards of competence and behaviour.
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News53,000 NHS jobs 'under threat'
More than 50,000 NHS jobs face being axed, including doctors, nurses and dentists, because of government spending cuts, “destroying” claims about the funding of the health service, a new report claims.
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HSJ KnowledgeTo work, the 'pay freeze for jobs' agreement needs coherent, medium term planning
The national enabling agreement proposes a pay freeze in return for no compulsory redundancies - but could this really be delivered? Director of public sector consulting at Hay Group Peter Smith weighs up the pros and cons.
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NewsPCT cluster retracts threat to cut public health posts
A primary care trust cluster in London has retracted letters sent to public health staff warning them their posts were “at risk”, after a minister publicly said it was wrong.
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NewsUnions' fury at PM privatisation plans
The prime minister has been accused of trying to take the UK back to the “divisive” years of the 1980s after suggesting that all public services could be opened up to private companies.
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Compensation payment reform backed by panel
A panel of independent experts has backed plans to reform the system of NHS compensation claims in Scotland.
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HSJ KnowledgeMaking changes to achieve savings - without disastrous consequences
In managing the NHS, we have choices. When we have a difficult problem do we think radical, fundamental, realistic, or painstaking? Jan Filochowski, chief executive of West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust, says that when push comes to shove, it’s worth being an evolver more than a radical, and a realist more ...
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HSJ Local
New chief exec joins Southend FT
WORKFORCE: Southend University FT’s new chief executive has begun working at the trust and will take over as accountable officer on 1 March 2011.
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HSJ Local
Agency staff driving nursing cost overspend at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership
WORKFORCE: Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust is reporting an overspend on nursing staff due to agency staff costs.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: the true cost of training
In a transparent, rules based funding system like payment by results, how can we ensure a steady flow of financial goodies to the deserving rich in the London teaching hospitals?
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HSJ KnowledgeReal healthcare reform needs a new conceptual landscape
Real healthcare reform requires a fundamental change in thinking, because more of the same just won’t do the trick, says Ann Porter, founder and chief executive of social innovation company Soda.
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CommentMedia Watch: drunks and royals give NHS staff little cause to raise a glass
One health story got the attention of all of the nationals this week - an Alcohol Concern report on the pressure placed on the NHS by drinking.
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NewsTrusts underestimating 'hidden' staff bank costs by 40 per cent
Trusts are underestimating the true costs of running in-house staffing banks by as much as 40 per cent, an NHS Professionals report has claimed.
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NewsPCT 'first' to look at commissioning social enterprise
NHS Western Cheshire staff may launch the first commissioning support social enterprise.
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HSJ Local
Kingston Hospital's integrated business plan would see nearly 500 posts deleted
WORKFORCE: A presentation sent to a local primary care trust envisaged cutting 486 posts by 2015/16 through “producitvity plans”.