Anna Coote is the Director of the Public Health Programme at the King's Fund. and This is a summary of the report of the same name. The NHS is more than a provider of health services. It is the largest single organisation in the UK. Its potential impact on health, the environment, and the social and economic fabric of our lives is vast. Claiming the ...
Workforce planning for the NHS is a large undertaking. The NHS in England employs approximately 1.3 million staff, 70 per cent of recurrent NHS costs relate to staffing, and more than £4 billion is spent annually on staff training. Securing a sufficient number of staff with the appropriate skills and ...
The NHS is the largest single organisation in the UK. Its potential impact on the environment, the health of the public and the fabric of their lives is huge, whether as employer, purchaser of goods and services, cause of travel, producer of waste, consumer of energy or commissioner of building ...
This summary draws on 'Working for Health : the NHS as an employer and its role in regeneration' published in February 2001, and a public seminar, 'New routes to health through employment' held on 7 February 2001, organised by the King's Fund and the London Regeneration Network.
This working paper examines the London labour market for health care staff. The study was conducted against the background of the early implementation of the National Health Service and Community Care Act and focuses on labour supply and on the extent to which planned or predicted changes in the profile ...
The Single European Market has nearly arrived when people will experience freedom of movement of goods, services and people between the Member States of the European Community. For the health service, this has two main concerns. First, the possible increase in the migration of unskilled labour will effect the health ...
The Task Force first published guidance about the role of the health service equal opportunities advisers in 1988. At that time only 8 advisers had been appointed. Since then the number has more than doubled and appointments at regional and unit as well as district level have been made. This ...
The Task Force was established in 1986 to help health authorities to implement equal opportunities policies for all racial groups in the health service. This 'model' policy has been created from a number of policies sent to the Task Force by health authorities, using those sections which seem most suitable ...
This project paper is a sequel to An Ordinary Working Life, and provides detailed accounts of a sample of schemes demonstrating how people with mental handicap, including some with severe handicap, can be integrated into ordinary work settings. It discusses the design of different schemes, with particular reference to job-finding ...