20 Dec 2005
Agreement reached on changes to the national GMS contract
Changes to the national General Medical Services (GMS) contract announced today will be better for patients, fair to the profession and secure good value for tax payers' money.
Agreement has been...
23 Nov 2005
NHS Employers begins review to introduce fairer redundancy packages
NHS Employers is today starting a review that will introduce fairer compensation arrangements for NHS staff in England and Wales ahead of the new age discrimination legislation due to come into...
17 Nov 2005
NHS Employers and trade unions start staff sickness and injury review
NHS Employers and trade unions have agreed today to undertake a joint review of how staff sickness and injury is managed in the NHS.
The review will look at the existing Ill Health Retirement...
08 Nov 2005
NHS Jobs wins on-line recruitment award
NHS Jobs, the free e-recruitment service for the NHS, has won a national award for best employers' recruitment website.
NHS Jobs (www.jobs.nhs.uk) beat 16,000 other employer sites to win the...
02 Nov 2005
New report shows stress is rife in the NHS
Over 60% of NHS organisations believe up to half their staff may be suffering from workplace stress, according to a new report published today.
NHS Employers is publishing Workplace Stress in the...
31 Oct 2005
Positive action report to help disadvantaged groups get jobs in the NHS
NHS organisations are today being encouraged to look at new ways of helping people from disadvantaged groups in their local communities to get jobs in the health service.
NHS Employers launched...
20 Oct 2005
NHS pension scheme review partners welcome new pension framework
NHS Employers and trade unions have welcomed the new framework for public sector pension schemes and said work on reforming the NHS pensions scheme would re-start next week.
NHS Employers and...
06 Oct 2005
New deal for thousands of NHS staff
NHS Employers has played a key role in a new agreement announced today which will give cleaners, porters and other 'soft' facilities management staff working for contractors to the NHS, pay and...
05 Oct 2005
NHS Employers seeks maximum 2.5 per cent pay award for all NHS staff
NHS Employers is seeking a maximum 2.5 per cent pay award for doctors, dentists and nurses and other healthcare professionals from April 2006 in its evidence to the pay review bodies released...
04 Oct 2005
NHS Employers publishes first national recruitment survey
NHS Employers today publishes the results of the first national survey of recruitment activities across the NHS in England.
The survey, which was carried out in July, will influence NHS Careers...
22 Sep 2005
Contract negotiators look at future role of SAS doctors - joint press release between NHS Employers and the BMA
Talks on a new contract for Staff and Associate Specialist (SAS) doctors continued when negotiators from NHS Employers and the BMA met again on Friday, September 16, 2005.
The two sides have been...
15 Sep 2005
GMS negotiators agree to carry out review in two stages
Negotiators from NHS Employers and the BMA have formally agreed to carry out the GMS review over two stages instead of one. The review is for the period from 2005/6 to 2008/9.
NHS Employers lead...
14 Sep 2005
Agenda for Change - joint statement
Joint statement between Department of Health, NHS Employers and trade unions on the position in terms of assimilation to Agenda for Change. This provides an agreed single position to implementation...
13 Sep 2005
The NHS takes a stand against domestic violence
NHS Employers today announced that it will fight domestic violence in the NHS as part of an alliance with some of the UK's best known businesses.
Working with employers across the health service...
25 Aug 2005
Joint NHS Employers/BMA SAS negotiation update
Negotiators from NHS Employers and the BMA met on Wednesday, August 17. Work is continuing and is focusing on the future structure of the staff and associate specialist doctor grades.
25 Aug 2005
New deputy director for NHS Employers
Siân Thomas is to join NHS Employers on secondment as deputy director with responsibility for a range of employment issues including workforce numbers, recruitment and retention and equality and...
18 Aug 2005
NHS Employers announces new appointments
NHS Employers is pleased to announce the following appointments.
Dr Ashley Fraser is the new NHS Employers medical director. Dr Fraser is a consultant histopathologist and is on secondment from...
08 Aug 2005
New chairs announced for joint negotiating committees
NHS Employers is today announcing the new chairs who will be representing employers at negotiations on doctors' terms and conditions.
Ann MacIntyre, Director of Human Resources at Barts and the...
22 Jul 2005
Joint press release with BMA: SAS contract negotiators invite more grass roots input
Representatives of the British Medical Association (BMA) and employers in the NHS are inviting staff and associate specialist (SAS) doctors and their employers to help shape negotiations on their...
21 Jul 2005
NHS Employers produces welcome pack for new junior doctors
Thousands of new junior doctors will be the first to receive an updated NHS welcome pack this week.
Produced by NHS Employers, the pack is being sent out to just under 4,500 junior doctors who...
19 Jul 2005
NHS Employers launches Back in Work Awards 2006
Awards are being launched this week to celebrate excellence in tackling the biggest cause of staff sickness in the NHS.
Back pain and other musculoskeletal injuries account for 40 per cent of all...
01 Jul 2005
Staff Council updated on unsocial hours review
NHS Employers and representatives from staff organisations were updated on progress of the review of unsocial hours payments under Agenda for Change this week when they met at a Staff Council...
15 Jun 2005
NHS Employers strengthens GMS negotiating team
NHS Employers has appointed PCT chief executive and former GP Barbara Hakin to head its negotiating team for the review of the General Medical Services (GMS) contract.
Dr Hakin is chief executive...
06 Jun 2005
QOF review team receives 514 submissions to amend framework
The quality and outcomes framework (QOF) review team has received over 500 submissions in response to its call for evidence for amendments or additions to the current framework in the GMS contract,...
01 Jun 2005
SAS negotiations update
Negotiators from the BMA and NHS Employers met again on Wednesday 1 June. Both sides have continued to make progress on defininng the existing roles, and looking at the future roles of staff and...
26 May 2005
Negotiators move to next phase of global sum allocation formula review
Negotiators from the British Medical Association and NHS Employers met again this week to drive forward discussions on the future of the formula review of the new national GP contract.
Speaking...
23 May 2005
Negotiators start work to find new name for SAS doctors
Negotiators from NHS Employers and the BMA have begun a joint exercise to assess the full range of staff and associate specialist (SAS) doctors' job roles and responsibilities.
The results of the...
13 May 2005
NHS Employers issues new guidance to protect NHS patients
NHS Employers has today issued new updated guidance to make NHS services safer for patients.
Launched at the HR in the NHS Conference, Safer Recruitment - a guidance for NHS employers gives HR...
13 May 2005
NHS Employers targets stress in the workplace
NHS Employers today launches a national campaign to help combat stress in the workplace.
At his keynote speech at the HR in the NHS conference, Steve Barnett, director of NHS Employers, said more...
12 May 2005
New awareness campaign launched on age diversity
NHS Employers is today launching a major new awareness campaign to highlight the essential role that older people will play in the future workforce.Trusts are being urged to draw up strategies to...
12 May 2005
NHS Employers launches updated Positively Diverse field book
NHS Employers is today launching a new version of a field book designed to help NHS organisations become model employers. The book is being launched at the HR in the NHS conference.
The...
11 May 2005
NHS Employers and GMC announce 'live-link' for pre-employment checks
Today employers move a step closer to making the NHS safer for patients with the launch of a quicker and easier process for checking the GMC registration status of hospital doctors. NHS Employers...
09 May 2005
Joint Press Release with BMA: SAS contract negotiations kick off with positive first meeting
Negotiators from the BMA and NHS Employers have met to start work on a new contract for doctors in the staff and associate specialist (SAS) group.
The first negotiating meeting, which took place...
04 May 2005
Nurse takes lead role in improving equality issues in NHS
NHS Employers has appointed Professor Carol Baxter as its new head of equality and diversity.
Professor Baxter came to the UK from Jamaica in 1970 to train as a nurse, midwife, health visitor and...
28 Apr 2005
GMS negotiators quizzed on QOF review
Patient group representatives this week quizzed GMS negotiators from NHS Employers and the BMA on the review of the quality and outcomes framework (QOF).
Representatives from 8 organisations...
18 Apr 2005
Negotiators meet for first time to discuss new deal for staff grade and associate specialist doctors
A new contract for thousands of hospital doctors came a step closer this month when negotiators met prior to formal negotiations.
NHS Employers and the BMA will be negotiating a new contract for...
14 Apr 2005
BMA and NHS Employers announce QOF review
The BMA and NHS Employers today announce the start of a review of the quality and outcomes framework (QOF).
The QOF review will assess all indicators in the current framework and call for...
11 Apr 2005
New contract set to double numbers of 'part-time' junior doctors
A major disincentive to work in the NHS is removed today (Monday 11 April, 2005), as doctors' leaders and employers announce a new contract making it easier for doctors in training to work...
05 Apr 2005
Action plan launched to make medical and dental careers more accessible
NHS Employers is today launching an action plan to tackle discrimination and harassment affecting doctors and dentists.
12% of students accepted into medical schools come from households headed...
22 Mar 2005
Latest workforce figures reflect NHS improvements
Welcoming the latest workforce figures today, NHS Employers says it will continue the drive to help make the NHS the best employer in the country.
Figures released by the Department of Health...
22 Mar 2005
Staff survey shows NHS is moving in the right direction but more still needs to be done, says NHS Employers
'Employers are continuing to improve the workplace for NHS staff, but there is still more that we need to do', says Steve Barnett, director of NHS Employers, today in response to the staff survey...
15 Mar 2005
NHS Employers announces negotiating team for new staff grade and associate specialist doctors contract
NHS Employers has today announced the team who will be negotiating the new contract for staff grade and associate specialist doctors on its behalf.
The team of seven will be led by Heather...
04 Mar 2005
NHS Employers calls for employers' response to pensions consultation
NHS Employers today issued a further call to organisations that employ staff in the NHS to respond to the NHS Pension Scheme review consultation document.
The consultation process is now...
10 Feb 2005
NHS Employers announces GMS negotiating team
NHS Employers today announces its negotiating team for the review of the GMS contract.
The 9-strong team will take forward the review of the current GMS contract with the General Practitioners...
02 Feb 2005
NHS Employers names new assembly chairman
The chief executive of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has been named as the chairman of NHS Employers' new 204-strong assembly.
Speaking at the first assembly meeting in London this...
27 Jan 2005
NHS Employers' response to the announcement of the CMO's review of patient safety
Responding to the Department of Health's announcement today about the Chief Medical Officer's review of patient safety, Alastair Henderson, Deputy Director of NHS Employers said:
'It is vital...
26 Jan 2005
NHS celebrates excellence in reducing workplace injuries
An Isle of Wight back care advisory team has won the top award in a national competition designed to encourage the NHS to reduce workplace injuries.
Run by NHS Employers, in partnership with the...
26 Jan 2005
NHS Employers launches updated guidance on occupational health
NHS Employers, the employers' organisation for the NHS, has today launched updated guidance covering occupational health issues such as needlestick injuries, stress management and use of alcohol and...
10 Jan 2005
Launch of NHS Pension Scheme Review Consultation
The details of the year long review of the NHS Pension Scheme have been released today by NHS Employers. The document, "Moving to a 21st century pension scheme", jointly produced by both management...
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