All Workforce articles – Page 432

  • News

    Trafford Healthcare trust urged to restore confidence

    2008-11-13T09:00:00Z

    A trust that withdrew the offer of a chief executive's job two weeks after announcing the appointment has been told it should be open about the reasons.

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    Job evaluation could open door for market pay rates

    2008-11-13T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has opened the door to more flexibility in very senior managers’ salaries, in response to growing concern that pay rules are being fudged and gamed.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Ways to weed out NHS inequality

    2008-11-10T01:00:00Z

    Equality champion Scott Durairaj has developed a human rights toolkit for NHS decision makers. Louise Hunt reports

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Christine Beasley on how staff can revolutionise the NHS

    2008-11-06T09:00:00Z

    I have been involved with the Productive Ward, designed by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, from the very beginning of its development, and personally launched the initiative at the Royal College of Nursing conference in 2007. Since then, I have kept a close interest in its progress.

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    Helen Bevan on the six lessons of success

    2008-11-06T09:00:00Z

    This is my 11th year as a national improvement leader in the NHS. During this time, I have led or supported more than 70 major national improvement initiatives, in priority areas such as quality, emergency care, waiting times, cancer services, leadership and care closer to home. Yet I have never ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Winds of change

    2008-11-06T09:00:00Z

    An exciting new role is beginning to take shape: people and organisations that can exemplify productive practice and guide others

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Far and wide

    2008-11-06T09:00:00Z

    The principles of Productive Ward are now being applied in community hospitals and mental health wards. But will the programme succeed outside its original context, asks Ingrid Torjesen

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    Making time fly

    2008-11-06T09:00:00Z

    Emails, meetings, sorting out that pile of paper: Jennifer Taylor looks at how the Productive Leader programme helps you cut tasks down to size

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Whole lotta shake-up

    2008-11-06T09:00:00Z

    They have succeeded on individual wards, but are trusts in Nottingham and Manchester up to the bigger challenge of transforming whole hospitals, asks Stuart Shepherd

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Roll out, roll out

    2008-11-06T09:00:00Z

    With services in the community going 'productive' in summer 2009, Nigel Hopps looks forward both to the opportunities and the challenges this presents

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    'This is a phenomenon'

    2008-11-06T09:00:00Z

    The NHS has seen countless initiatives but the Productive Ward seems different - in the sheer enthusiasm it provokes, the refreshing lack of jargon and the way it was developed from the bottom up. Stuart Shepherd explains

  • Comment

    Alastair Henderson on the NHS staff survey

    2008-11-01T01:00:00Z

    The largest of its kind, the NHS staff survey last year captured the feelings of 156,000 employees from all 391 trusts in England.

  • Comment

    Steve Barnett on world class NHS leaders

    2008-11-01T01:00:00Z

    It is not hard to think of bad leaders. A recent poll named figures from Stalin to Vlad the Impaler who score badly in the popularity stakes, while Steve McClaren, 'the wally with the brolly', springs to my mind.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    NHS staff engagement

    2008-11-01T01:00:00Z

    Involving the whole NHS workforce in improvement means asking their opinion and responding to feedback. Alastair Henderson puts the business case for staff inclusion

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Health service staff security

    2008-11-01T01:00:00Z

    All NHS staff deserve to work without fear of violence or abuse. New security specialists are helping to provide vital local support

  • News

    NHS Wales chief executive to step down

    2008-10-30T11:43:00Z

    NHS Wales chief executive Ann Lloyd has announced she will step down after eight years in the post.

  • News

    Managers' union calls on DH to 'rip up' pay scheme

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    The pay scheme for very senior NHS managers undermines the effort going into world class commissioning and should be 'ripped up', officials are being told.

  • News

    World class care takes a team

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    The NHS is truly world class in many aspects of its clinical work but the outcome figures of a brilliant surgeon are undermined without the rest of the NHS team, who provide essential theatre cleaning, nursing and ward management. A patient-led NHS has to recognise all the worth behind the ...

  • News

    Manchester mental health chief launches dismissal claim

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    A trust chief executive who triggered weeks of strike action after sacking a trade union official has launched an unfair dismissal claim.Manchester Mental Health and Social Care trust's former chief Sheila Foley resigned in July, the day after a report, commissioned by NHS North West, criticised frequent changes of management ...

  • News

    Surviving the economic crisis

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    It was interesting to hear senior human resources figures from British Airways and Legal and General at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development annual conference. They were clear that the only way for organisations to survive the economic crisis is for unions and employers to work towards a common ...