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HSJ Knowledge
Staff wellbeing
Strictly Come Dancing stars Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopylova used their creative talents to promote health and wellbeing in the workplace. The couple took centre stage to promote the launch of the NHS Barnsley staff support service’s ‘Live 4 Life’ campaign.
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NewsPCT chiefs are not underpaid, says DH
The pay gap between primary care trust chief executives and their foundation trust peers is overstated, according to the Department of Health.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: The Game-Changer – How Every Leader Can Drive Everyday Innovation
Find out how one giant company profits from a change culture, says Julie Wells
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NewsTop NHS managers urge against pay freeze
A quarter of senior managers have said they think they are underpaid in a survey being used to oppose calls for a pay freeze.
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NewsTories clarify Osborne's pension cap and pay freeze
NHS managers are excluded from shadow chancellor George Osborne’s pledge to cap public sector pension payouts at £50,000 a year, the Conservatives have told HSJ.
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News£1.5m spent on private care for NHS staff in three years
The NHS spent £1.5m over the last three years paying for its staff to receive private healthcare, the Liberal Democrats have claimed.
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NewsNHS sickness absence rates 'must fall further'
NHS bosses in Scotland must do more to reduce the rate of sickness absence, a senior minister has said.
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NewsDoctor warned over abuse of power
A Southend Hospital doctor who accessed a woman’s medical records to find her home address and mobile phone number, before turning up at her home and asking if she lived alone, is still fit to practise, the General Medical Council has ruled.
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NewsWorking time directive costs lives - RCS study
Cuts in doctors’ working hours to meet EU rules could be costing lives, a study by the Royal College of Surgeons has claimed.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhat managers can do to stop procrastination
People put tasks off for a variety of reasons but it is a manager’s responsibility to find out what is causing this problem and help keep performance levels high
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CommentJenny Rogers: how to survive a media onslaught
Over a glass of wine, a friend in a high profile public sector job is agonising about how her organisation should have responded to what she saw as the humiliating newspaper hounding of a senior woman colleague.
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NewsNHS 'must find jobs for disabled'
Leading specialist employment service Remploy is urging the NHS to give more jobs to disabled people.
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HSJ KnowledgeDelivering better care with fewer resources
Streamlining services and funding is important but above all managing staff engagement is now vital to protect jobs and quality of care, says Chris Roebuck
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NewsNMC calls on government to help whistleblowers
Nurses and midwives are not reporting poor care because of bad whistleblowing procedures, the chair of the Nursing and Midwifery Council has said.
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NewsCQC clocks up first class expenses
The Care Quality Commission’s executive team has spent nearly £6,000 on first class rail travel and taxis in the first three months of its existence.
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NewsMid Staffs releases report on former chief executive
Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has released a report into the conduct and performance of its previous chief executive Martin Yeates.
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NewsNHS East of England faces DH assurance test
NHS East of England has been told it needs to adopt a more “bottom-up approach” to supporting primary care trusts in the region.
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NewsNHS admin must be slashed by £1.5bn
NHS organisations are preparing to have to shave a third off their running costs if the Conservatives take power next year.
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NewsPublic sector pensions must be reviewed - Steve Bundred
All public sector pension schemes must be reviewed amid the public finance shortfalls, the chief executive of the Audit Commission has said.
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NewsSex offender sparks investigation at Essex trust
The circumstances under which a child sex offender got a job as an NHS occupational therapist are being investigated by Essex health service bosses.