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TB checks could bar locums from NHS_2
Recruiters say the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA) has introduced an 'unwritten rule' ... not had a check for tuberculosis (TB) from working in the NHS. Recruiter understands that PASA decided in March that all locums ... guidelines, it had thus far refused to do so. PASA's reluctance to publish these guidelines may be because they would go against ...
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Javid promises to revisit visa caps for skilled workers
On the BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show yesterday, new home secretary Sajid Javid was ... certainly want me to take a look at this, and that’s exactly what I’m doing. “And I hope to think about this more carefully ... what can be done.” In response to Javid’s comments, NHS Employers, the government agency that acts on behalf of NHS trusts in the ...
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‘Perfect storm’ for nursing talent crisis say recruiters
... in England than in 2010. According to recruiters, the NHS is facing a perfect storm due to stringent English language testing making ... working conditions and Brexit all contributing to the NHS’s hiring travails. Barry Pactor, group managing director at ttm Healthcare, ...
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Agencies fight back
... When Barrie Blower, chief executive of Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust, made his ill-fated comments about agency nurses, it was inevitably ... felt by nursing and healthcare organisations at the NHS’s reliance on agency staff. For example, Ann Leedham-Smith, regional ...
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Agencies fight back_2
... When Barrie Blower, chief executive of Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust, made his ill-fated comments about agency nurses, it was inevitably ... felt by nursing and healthcare organisations at the NHS’s reliance on agency staff. For example, Ann Leedham-Smith, regional ...
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The vision thing
... Paul Hill reckons he owes a lot to Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government. Health reforms under her rule gave him the opportunity to ... created fundholding general practitioner (GP) practices and NHS trusts at the end of the 1980s. With a background in accountancy and ...
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Poor workforce planning behind public sector redundancies and rehires, experts say
... to avoid unnecessary payouts and pain, experts say. The NHS recently said it had re-employed nearly 4,000 staff it had made redundant ... Dr Zofia Bajorek, a researcher at the Work Foundation's Centre for Workplace Effectiveness, tells Recruiter the "politically ...
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Confusing diagnoses
... on what is actually happening at the coal face. Being an NHS supplies manager presents one of the greatest challenges in modern ... also a disparity in the messages received from the trust’s board lead (the finance director), and the messages being sent from national ...
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Make agency healthcare workers pay for their own compliance, de Poel Clarity proposes
Mon, 3 Mar, 2014 | By DeeDee Doke Individual NHS healthcare agency workers could become responsible for paying for their own ... costs for the financially beleaguered health service’s Trusts, which reportedly pay more than £500 per year for each agency worker ...
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Hospitals in turmoil as deal collapses
... have been given just weeks to do their own deals after the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (Pasa) failed to reach an agreement with ... systems, at more than 70 major NHS trusts. Pasa said GE’s bid for the renewed contract was unsatisfactory but would not comment ...