All Workforce articles – Page 453
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HSJ Knowledge
Making workforce development work
Problems with workforce planning in the NHS can be overcome, as one initiative has shown. Kevin Elliston explains
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News
Junior doctors on understaffed rotas, says BMA
Three in 10 junior doctors are working on understaffed rotas, according to a survey by the British Medical Association.
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Comment
Ali Mohammed on staff surveys
Do you care what your staff think of working for your trust? Should you care? It is that time of year when we all receive our annual staff and patient survey results.
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HSJ Knowledge
Do new patterns of learning produce employable graduates?
Employers of allied health professionals welcome applicants from flexible training routes, say Rupert Kerrell and colleagues
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News
Jon Restell on valuing all frontline staff
I have had the people who work in general practice on my mind recently. At this time of especially heightened clinical engagement, it is easier than ever to forget that good healthcare is delivered by teams.
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News
Corporate manslaughter: you could be in the dock
From 6 April NHS organisations could be prosecuted for corporate manslaughter if someone dies in their care, but different interpretations of the law mean trusts may be unclear about their responsibilities. Ingrid Torjesen attempts to unravel the new actFor more in-depth information about the act, register for HSJ’s free corporate ...
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Leader
Practices' minimum income is a guarantee of health inequity
Figures obtained byHSJ this week reveal huge variations in the amount GP practices are paid for doing their job, regardless of how many patients they serve or the severity of their needs.
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News
Panel saves services at Horton Hospital
The independent reconfiguration panel has advised the health secretary to reject Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals trust's proposals to downgrade paediatric, gynaecological and obstetric services at Horton Hospital because it would not provide an accessible or improved service for local people.
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News
Huge variation in GP practice pay regardless of size of list
Figures obtained by HSJ reveal the extent to which the national GP contract has driven inequity across the country, with huge variations in payments to practices, regardless of the number and need of their patients.
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HSJ Knowledge
Recipes for organisational success
High-performing organisations - inside and outside the NHS - have a number of management techniques in common, explains Paul Allen
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Comment
Care as a career: raising the public perception
The public's view of caring as a profession is often negative, but this can be changed by bringing people closer to the realities of this work at its best, argues Helen Joy
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News
Alison Irving on life after the health service
A long, fulfilling career in the NHS can prepare you for things you never thought possible, as one former manager explains
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Comment
David Amos on directing talent
2008 could be the year that the widespread development of talented frontline staff and the spotting of potential senior staff takes centre stage in the NHS.
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News
Coaching: ready to speak out
Dorothy Larios continues our coaching series with a look at how she worked with a hospital-based commissioner
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HSJ Knowledge
Employment dispute rules to be changed
The proposed repeal of the statutory dispute resolution procedures was welcomed by many people involved in human resources and employment law. But an employer or employee still risks substantial financial penalties if they drop their guard before 2009, when the new legislation comes into force. Jean Sapeta explains
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News
Chief operating officer for NHS Direct
Paula Higson has been appointed chief operating officer of NHS Direct.
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News
GP pay doubles in 20 years
Average GP earnings topped £110,000 in 2005-06, twice the level of two decades earlier, according to figures published by the Information Centre for health and social care.
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News
Black calls on NHS to fight employee absence
The national director for health and work has presented plans for the NHS to take on a wider role in promoting health and well-being at work.
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News
Care Quality Commission salary is 'ridiculously low'
The Department of Health is under pressure to increase the salary for the first chair of the new health and social care regulator after it was branded 'ridiculously low'. The job was advertised at £60,780 a year for up to three days a week, considerably less than comparable posts.
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Comment
Care Quality Commission: open your wallet and pay for real talent
For a department renowned for its largesse when it comes to remuneration, it is difficult to understand why the Department of Health is being so parsimonious when it comes to the salary for the chair of the new Care Quality Commission.