All Workforce articles – Page 434
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Women consultants 'treat fewer patients'
Rising numbers of women consultants could lead to a long-term decline in productivity, academics have warned.
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Community hospitals grab local care lifeline
Two years after Our Health, Our Care, Our Say promised to shift care away from the acute sector, community hospitals are redefining how they provide services. Alison Moore looks at the emerging models and asks what has held up progress
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Call to bar worst managers
The leader of the UK's hospital doctors is calling for greater regulation of managers - with powers to stop them working in healthcare in extreme cases.
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Patients could hold answer to gender work rate differences
For the increasing number of female consultants, research this week that concludes they are less productive than their male counterparts is likely to make them bristle.
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Unions agree on unsocial hours pay proposals
NHS Employers and unions representing staff on Agenda for Change contracts have agreed joint proposals for unsocial hours pay.
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Franklin Oikelome and Ronny Flynn on the NHS equality record
The NHS is the largest single employer in the UK, employing over a million people. Since its inception, it has relied on a workforce with a high proportion of black and minority ethnic staff, many of whom were actively recruited in the 1950s and 1960s to pioneer the new health ...
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Paul Allen on making the most of management competencies
Understanding competency frameworks can help the NHS use them to their full potential
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Out of the picture
The NHS is still dragging its feet on race equality, especially in top posts. So will the relaunched Breaking Through programme kick-start the revolution, asks Caroline White
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Support for doctors with physical and mental illnesses
NHS and independent healthcare providers are being invited to set up and run a new service to support doctors and dentists with physical and mental illnesses or addiction concerns.
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HSJ Knowledge
Cambodia
In the second of series on volunteering abroad, Patricia Sloan talks about how she is settling in to a new life in Cambodia.It is exactly two months since I left from Manchester Airport outward bound for Phnom Penh and into the unknown. I had spent the weeks prior to ...
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Getting equality right
Blair McPherson argues that promoting equality and diversity can help NHS organisations get their house in order
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Creating coaching cultures
Coaching has become a recognised, global profession established in a diverse range of organisations worldwide.
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Global challenge - volunteering abroad in mental health
Overseas volunteering is increasingly seen as a way for health professionals to get involved in improving global health. Here, Deji Oyebode explains how it works
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At the heart of change - reducing coronary heart disease
ISIP is helping to pull together existing work on prevention and treatment to tackle Hull's high mortality rates, reports Alison Moore
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Career coaching: yes, you can phone a friend
In a new series, management coaches tackle HSJ readers' issues. This week, Dorothy Larios helps a trainee frustrated by a perceived lack of opportunities
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View from the front line: redesigning care
Understanding the concerns and challenges facing staff on the ground is essential to good management. In this new series HSJ goes back to the floor to get the views and opinions of frontline workers
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Ken Jarrold on an NHS birthday to remember
This year could be the best for the NHS in England for some time. Challenges will not be in short supply, including the 18-week target, infection control, foundation status and maintaining hard-won financial stability. However, it should be the first year for a while that is not dominated by financial ...
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DH asks how best to sack ineffective chairs
The Department of Health has launched a consultation on the best way to get rid of primary care trust chairs or non-executive trust directors who are not up to the job.
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Anger over C difficile pay-off
The former chief executive of a trust at the centre of an infection control scandal is to get a £75,000 pay-off.Rose Gibb, who led Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, will only get her 'legal entitlement' of six months' salary, the trust said yesterday.
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New pay scale for unsocial hours
NHS Employers and trade union officials have agreed on a provisional new pay scale for unsocial hours.