What's happening with the workforce
Information gathered from NHS organisations between late March and early May 2006 indicates that few people working in the NHS are losing their jobs and the figures quoted recently in the media are misleading.
Equity in implementing change
NHS Employers has produced this guidance to give an overview of the issues that NHS organisations should be addressing to maintain and enhance their ability to deliver the equality and diversity agenda, and to ensure that all staff are supported through times of organisational change.
Lean Thinking for the NHS
The Lean Enterprise Academy looked at how Toyota's approach to production could be applied to healthcare... leading to useful applications for the NHS.
Tools for role redesign
The Large Scale Workforce Change team from NHS Employers have collated a directory of tools and techniques available to help in the redesign of roles, to impove service provision.
Managing change tools and technique
Supporting materials outlining a range of techniques and how they can be used to support organisational change projects in the NHS.
Managing staff through change
This guidance has been produced to assist senior managers in NHS organisations in managing change whether it be merger, de merger, consolidation of work across an organisation or just the restructuring of current services.
Tips for reconfiguration of service
The NHS Employers Agenda For Change Implementation Team have distilled learnings about change management garnered from their four years of introducing AFC into the English NHS, and provide some straightforward tips for Chief Executives and HR Directors of reconfiguring organisations.
Retention of experienced staff
In 2005, the Nurse Directors Association (NDA) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) held workshops for senior nursing staff who had experienced redundancy. The aim was to learn from the experiences of staff that had been displaced and look at ways of supporting existing HR staff retention polices.
TUPE seminar for employers
Last month, we delivered a seminar on Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) for employers, led by Wragge solicitors. The main theme of the day was around the increasing number of providers in the NHS and the corresponding impact on NHS staff.
