All Workforce articles – Page 428

  • News

    Minority staff get worse deal on jobs, pay and grievances

    2008-08-07T09:00:00Z

    Widespread disadvantages faced by black and minority ethnic NHS staff have been laid bare in a stark analysis of recruitment, bullying, grievance and disciplinary rates.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Devolved power flows through Darzi's vision

    2008-08-07T09:00:00Z

    The next stage review's warm reception was testament to the staff and patient engagement that informed it. Now, says NHS chief executive David Nicholson, that local ownership will energise its implementation

  • News

    Managers losing sleep as 48-hour week nears

    2008-08-07T09:00:00Z

    The clock is ticking on the European working time directive, with only a year until junior doctors’ hours are cut. Alison Moore asks if trusts are ready to make the change

  • HSJ Partners

    Getting the most from the NHS workforce

    2008-08-06T09:00:00Z

    With more than 1.3 million members of staff, the NHS is the largest employer in Europe and has traditionally been regarded as a good place to work. But traditions can change and assets need to be looked after. Alastair Henderson explains that as the NHS moves into a new era, ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Managing stress in the NHS workforce

    2008-08-05T09:00:00Z

    The best cure for work-related stress is for employees to take personal ownership of the problem, explains Robert Wilcox

  • Comment

    Simon Bird on whether clinicians are always the best leaders

    2008-08-05T09:00:00Z

    It seems rather counter-cultural right now to question the drive for clinicians to take up leadership positions. However, the assumptions behind the drive, while compelling and applicable to some, should not be extrapolated across whole professions.

  • Comment

    Steve Onyett on medical leadership

    2008-08-04T09:00:00Z

    The Darzi review has shed new light on the challenge of letting go of central control. The idea that staff can be clinicians, partners and leaders is an engaging way of conveying that leadership needs to be widely dispersed.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    NHS retirement: old enough to know better

    2008-08-04T09:00:00Z

    The NHS Retirement Fellowship must attract younger members if it is to continue to represent ex-staff. Stuart Shepherd reports

  • News

    Unison votes to re-open pay deal

    2008-08-01T11:56:00Z

    Health workers' union Unison has voted to re-open a multi-year pay deal.

  • News

    Solihull care trust appoints interim chair

    2008-07-31T12:16:00Z

    Jenni Ord has been appointed as interim chairman of Solihull care trust.

  • News

    SHAs and trusts lock horns over future shape of workforce

    2008-07-31T09:00:00Z

    The government’s NHS workforce strategy is sidelining trusts and fuelling rows with strategic health authorities, managers have told HSJ.Health minister Lord Darzi’s next stage review is being criticised for granting SHAs extra workforce planning powers and saying little about non-clinical managers.

  • Leader

    Workforce strategy should be driven by trusts, not regions

    2008-07-31T09:00:00Z

    Among the wild cheering that accompanied most of Lord Darzi’s next stage review plans, there was a markedly more muted response to the workforce strategy.

  • News

    Joint appointment smooths way for Kingston merger

    2008-07-31T09:00:00Z

    Kingston primary care trust and council are consulting on plans to integrate. The PCT and local authority have appointed the first joint director of finance as part of a move to promote greater partnership working.

  • News

    Ruling against 'sexist' bonus

    2008-07-31T09:00:00Z

    Thousands of female NHS staff will be able to lodge claims for extra pay following a Court of Appeal ruling.

  • News

    No prosecutions over Maidstone deaths

    2008-07-30T14:40:00Z

    No-one will face prosecution over the deaths of 90 patients from C difficile at a Kent trust, it was announced today.Kent police and the Health and Safety Executive said they would take no further action after a review prompted by the critical Healthcare Commission report into Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells ...

  • News

    Hospital malnutrition doubles in two years

    2008-07-30T11:50:00Z

    The number of serious incidents related to poor nutritional care of hospital patients has almost doubled, figures show.

  • News

    Appeal court ruling on discriminatory pay

    2008-07-30T11:46:00Z

    Trusts may be forced to compensate thousands of female workers who missed out on pay protection schemes awarded to their male colleagues.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    No success for successors in equal pay claims

    2008-07-29T09:00:00Z

    A ruling that a woman's successor, in the same job, was a valid comparator for an equal pay claim has been overturned. Rachel Heenan and Daniella McGuigan explain the implications

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Managing sickness absence: case study

    2008-07-29T09:00:00Z

    Following a rise in sickness absences among its staff, Wolverhampton City PCT formed a research team to investigate. Kuljit Heer explains what the team found out

  • HSJ Partners

    Nurses' pay increases by 4.2 per cent

    2008-07-29T09:00:00Z

    Qualified nurses' estimated basic pay increased to £27,000, according to the NHS Information Centre, which published its latest estimates of NHS staff earnings on 26 July.