All Workforce articles – Page 431
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News
New pilot to help GPs in distress
Health secretary Alan Johnson has announced plans to launch a pilot support service for doctors suffering from mental health and addiction problems.
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HSJ Knowledge
Steve Onyett on Paxman's pants
While "pants" is a term of derision in the vernacular of youth, Jeremy Paxman's exchange last month with Marks & Spencer chief executive Sir Stuart Rose has done the men of our nation a service by highlighting the importance of being supported in all the right places.This is not the ...
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HSJ Knowledge
GPs must see sense on hours
New proposals for extended working hours for GPs have provoked a storm of protest - but doctors should take a careful look at the benefits, argues Alastair Henderson
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HSJ Knowledge
Who cares for the carers?
People caring for a relative are a vital part of the health and social care system - but many feel isolated. A national strategy aims to help by making GPs and community services more carer friendly. Stuart Shepherd reports
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Johnson irks committee as he ducks careers queries
Health secretary Alan Johnson has rankled MPs by refusing to answer questions at a health select committee inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers.Mr Johnson batted off a series of questions about junior doctors' training, saying he could not comment before the Department of Health's formal response to the Tooke report.
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Comment
Jon Restell on looking after managers
Managers in healthcare need to do more than ever to look after their staff. I don't have a problem with this; it's the right thing to be doing.
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News
Act now to avoid crisis, says RCN
The Department of Health must recognise the need to train thousands more nurses now to meet 'unprecedented' demand by 2030, the Royal College of Nursing has warned.
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Comment
Foreign bodies
When discussing sensitive issues such as migrant healthcare professionals, our choice of language is paramount. So I must point out that an item in HSJ speaking of 'overseas' doctors (in brief, page 6, 14 February) is misleading.
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Comment
Ronny Flynn on righting racial inequalities
Frontline staff and managers' skills in engaging with and using evidence are essential to promoting race equality in health services. Britain prides itself on its open access to healthcare and the quality of its prevention and treatment of illness.
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HSJ Knowledge
Device offers peace of mind for lone healthcare workers
Lone workers at Guy's and St Thomas' foundation trust are using a new security device that allows them to communicate discreetly with a back-up call centre in potentially hazardous situations.
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HSJ Knowledge
Device offers peace of mind for lone healthcare workers
Lone workers at Guy's and St Thomas' foundation trust are using a new security device that allows them to communicate discreetly with a back-up call centre in potentially hazardous situations.
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HSJ Knowledge
Career Path: rising to the top
Dr Simon Eccles talks to Stuart Shepherd about his path from medical school to a variety of roles in NHS management
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News
Career Path: rising to the top
Dr Simon Eccles talks to Stuart Shepherd about his path from medical school to a variety of roles in NHS management
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News
Social care managers working longer hours
Eight out of 10 social care managers regularly work more than their contracted hours, a report by the Chartered Management Institute has found.
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News
Career changes will turn nurses into 'handmaidens', say unions
Nurses will become mere “handmaidens” who lack leadership skills under planned changes to nursing careers, unions have warned. The Department of Health’s consultation on post-registration nursing careers, which ended last Friday, proposed moving away from early specialisation, with nurses instead working in five shorter term “pathways” such as mental health ...
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Comment
Neil Goodwin on building working relationships
What do teenage children, marriage and friendships have in common when thinking about work? They all offer excellent opportunities for developing relationship skills in the workplace.
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Comment
Neil Goodwin on building working relationships
What do teenage children, marriage and friendships have in common when thinking about work? They all offer excellent opportunities for developing relationship skills in the workplace.
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News
Violence increases but training in restraint techniques is still on hold
Urgent proposals for dealing with violent patients are still awaiting government funding 10 years after the death that sparked them.HSJ has discovered that a national training scheme for staff in acute mental health wards has been on hold for years, despite fresh evidence of increasing violent behaviour.
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Comment
Find the funds to keep violence in check
Uniquely among the main care disciplines, mental health services routinely have to manage a triangle of potentially violent relationships: patients attacking staff, patients attacking each other and - when it comes to restraining aggression - staff using force on patients.
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Primary care leaders call GP resistance 'unhelpful'
Primary care leaders have joined the argument over extended hours after GPs warned they may refuse to take part in local audits on opening times.