Showing posts with label NHS staff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NHS staff. Show all posts

Tuesday, 9 August 2016

Staffing matters; funding counts

"Policymakers need to look at how targeted and aligned policies covering the effective use of temporary staff, retention of existing employees and international recruitment can be used to address current shortages in staffing and skills in order to buy time, while a more long-term sustainable approach is introduced."

Staffing matters; funding counts: Workforce profile and trends in the English NHS
J Buchan, I Seccombe, A Charlesworth
The Health Foundation
July 2016

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Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Discrimination in governance and leadership and the potential impact on patient care

"Leadership bodies which are significantly unrepresentative of their local communities, such as NHS Trust Boards, will have more difficulty ensuring that care is genuinely patient centred – with resultant failings in the provision or quality of services to specific local communities that have particular health needs, including BME communities and patients."

The “snowy white peaks” of the NHS: a survey of discrimination in governance and leadership and the potential impact on patient care in London and England
R Kline
Middlesex University
2014

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Thursday, 22 May 2014

Culture and leadership in the NHS

"A higher proportion of respondents now believe that the NHS is giving enough priority to quality of care compared with 2013, although these respondents are still the minority. The respondents provided a wealth of examples of how their organisations are developing compassionate care – including collective patient feedback, training and supporting staff."

Culture and leadership in the NHS: The King's Fund survey 2014
The King's Fund
May 2014

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Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Fit enough for patients?


"Physiotherapy services play a vital role in improving staff health and wellbeing, and many of the trusts highlighted in this report are already putting physiotherapy at the heart of wellbeing services for staff."

Fit enough for patients? An audit of workplace health and wellbeing services for NHS staff
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
March 2013

Read more here.