All Workforce articles – Page 455
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New penalties for attacks on ambulance workers
Ambulance workers are among groups set to be covered by new Home Office penalties on those who obstruct the work of emergency workers.People transporting blood, organs or equipment for the NHS will also be covered by the new legislation, which will mean fines of up to £5,000 for those prosecuted.Read ...
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Anger at India outsourcing plans
The NHS is to drastically increase the proportion of outsourced financial work carried out in India.
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Leicester to cut 200 beds and 900 staff by 2009
Two hundred beds and 900 staff posts are to go at University Hospitals of Leicester trust - despite the organisation expecting to be £13m in the black this year.
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HSJ Knowledge
Legal briefing: can non-NHS bodies access the NHS pension scheme?
Our legal experts guide you through the pension implications for companies taking on NHS services
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Time to break the circle of negativity
There's no row like a family row and the NHS family is not an exception. It has long been recognised that the NHS's own staff can often be the worst ambassadors for what is happening in the service, nationally and locally.
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Patients could be told costs of care
Patients could be told the 'actual value' of the health services they are using in a bid to make them use the NHS more responsibly and relieve pressure on staff.
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New chief for allied health professionals
Chief nursing officer Christine Beasley announced today that Karen Middleton will take up the post of chief health professions officer for England from 1 March 2007.The chief health professions officer is the government's most senior allied health professions adviser, leading the allied health professions team at the Department of Health.The ...
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on reconfiguration and supercasinos
2007 is promising to be a good year. I'm an optimist - it has to be!
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Closing the skills gap with the private sector
Just a quick feedback on the excellent article by Neil Goodwin which made points that need to be explored by NHS managers when providing patient-led services.
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GP czar calls for family doctors to do hospital roles
GP czar Dr David Colin-Thome has made a clinical case for widening the role of GPs to include roles traditionally found in hospitals.In a report to health secretary Patricia Hewitt he says family doctors could carry out more minor operations, take responsibility for the six-week post surgery follow up and ...
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BMA in urgent care warning
Doctors are being edged out of urgent care in favour of non-medically qualified staff, the BMA has warned.Responding to the Department of Health's Direction of travel of urgent careconsultation, the BMA said it was concerned that primary care trusts were re-shaping urgent care around ...
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Burnham announces engagement plans
Health minister Andy Burnham has published proposals for better NHS staff engagement, based on his experience shadowing frontline workers last year.The report also proposes a review of Agenda for Changeand piloting of a 'graduate guarantee' scheme for newly qualified health professionals.Read the report here
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RCN: nurses 'ready to talk'
Nurses are being held back in the boardroom by insufficient skills and the attitudes of senior managers, the Royal College of Nursing has claimed.
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Select committee challenges Hunt over planning 'mess'
The workforce woes plaguing many trusts are 'one-off issues' that will fade next year, health minister Lord Hunt has insisted.
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In or out: contractors braced for a domestic over cleaning
Andy Burnham is expected to tell the prime minister that hospital cleaners should be part of the 'NHS family', but the companies providing services complain that poor trust management and contracting are to blame for low standards. Alison Moore digs the dirt
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PCT could slash 90 per cent of staff
A troubleshooter chief executive plans to strip an ailing primary care trust down to its core functions and reduce the number of staff from 300 to 30.
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New chair of NHS Litigation Authority
Professor Dame Joan Higgins has been appointed as the new chair of the NHS Litigation Authority.Dame Joan is Emeritus Professor of Health Policy at the University of Manchester and outgoing chair of the Christie Hospital Trust. She is also chair of the patient information advisory group at the Department of ...
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DoH names renal services 'czar'
The Department of Health has named Dr Donal O'Donoghue for the newly created post of 'renal services czar'.Dr O'Donoghue has been a consultant renal physician at Salford Royal Hospitals foundation trust since 1992, was involved in the development of the NSF and is co-chair of the DoH renal advisory group.Read ...
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Sainsbury Centre appoints prisons director
The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health has appointed Sean Duggan as director of its new prisons and criminal justice programme.Mr Duggan is currently director of health and social care in criminal justice at the Care Services Improvement Partnership's London development centre and consultant in offender health for the Department of ...
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Winterton announces end-of-life strategy board
Health minister Rosie Winterton has announced a 27-strong advisory board to support the development of the end-of-life care strategy.The board is chaired by national cancer director professor Mike Richards and includes chief executives of leading charities, senior clinicians and NHS and social care managers.Working groups will include: measuring the quality ...