WORKFORCE/WORKPLACE

NHS Job Evaluation Handbook 3rd edition (22nd February 2010)

Produced by the NHS Staff Council Job Evaluation Group, this is the comprehensive guide on job evaluation (JE) for organisations, including mainstreaming JE, resolving issues on blocked matching and evaluating jobs, weighting and scoring, band ranges and how to use job profiles.

Document

WORKFORCE/WORKPLACE

Human rights and human resources in the NHS: implications for the workplace (19th January 2010)
The NHS Constitution, which came into law as part of the Health Act in November 2009, makes it clear that healthcare and human rights go hand in hand.

This Briefing outlines a human rights approach to managing workplace practices, which can not only keep organisations operating within the law, but can help further the reputation of the NHS as a model employer. It shows some of the ways the Human Rights Act could be used to challenge human resource decisions, and provides a useful decision making tool to ensure compliance.
Briefing

WORKFORCE/WORKPLACE

Improving staff engagement: a practical toolkit (3rd November 2009)
NHS Employers has teamed up with the international staff engagement specialists O C Tanner to produce Improving staff engagement – a practical toolkit. The briefing looks at the benefits engaged staff bring in terms of improved patient care and better value for money. This is particularly critical at a time of increasing financial pressures.

This briefing provides pointers on how to get staff engagement rights and offers tips that have high impact at low cost. In addition it also looks at the key roles managers have to play in ensuring staff are clear on what is expected of them as identifying where employees know what is expected dramatically improves performance and engagement levels.
Toolkit

Pension Choice? Career and retirement options for the NHS (2nd November 2009)
This briefing is for boards and human resource directors in NHS organisations in England. It covers the strategic issues and potential risks for boards in relation to the NHS Pension Choice exercise. The NHS Pension Choice exercise begins in January 2010, giving members of the 1995 section of the NHS Pension Scheme the opportunity to move to the new 2008 section. As part of the exercise, every employer will need to engage with staff of all ages about career and retirement planning. This briefing outlines how good employment practice during the Choice exercise will help organisations to support staff, retain skills and prepare for the future.
Briefing

Talent for tough times: how to identify, attract and retain the talent you need (4th November 2009)
It is more important than ever that the NHS is attracting, retaining and developing talented people who are adaptable and up to the challenges ahead. This practical briefing outlines what good talent management looks like, discusses why it will be so important as the NHS faces the lean years ahead and sets out how trusts can get started.
Briefing

COMMISSIONING

The evidence base to guide development of Tier 4 CAMHS (29th July 2009)
Until recently the idea of Tier 4 specialist CAMHS was synonymous with psychiatric inpatient provision, sometimes with day hospitals attached. Tier 4 has more recently come to be understood as multi-faceted with multi-agency services that can include inreach, outreach, intensive and crisis community initiatives, day provision, therapeutic fostering and other services that may be described as 'wrap around'. What has been seen over the past few years are innovative approaches in assessment and treatment of this most complex group of young people and the development of new intensive community focused services.

The purpose of this paper is to present the latest information on these new developments and share with commissioners and providers the evidence base for development of effective services in this area.
Paper

Pharmacy-based stop smoking services: optimising commissioning (July 2009)
Stop smoking services are one of the most cost effective of all health interventions in the NHS. This guidance covers the key areas for primary care trusts (PCTs) when commissioning 'world class' pharmacy-based stop smoking services.
Guidance

PRIMARY CARE

Better, Safer Doctors: implementing medical revalidation (June 2009)
From autumn 2009 all doctors who wish to practise medicine in the UK will require a Licence to Practise. This is the first step in introducing a system for regularly checking and assuring every doctor's continued fitness to practise, known as revalidation. This briefing explains the key elements of the process, sets out the various roles and responsibilities, and discusses the areas that remain to be resolved as revalidation gets underway.
Briefing

BULLETINS/NEWSLETTERS

Health Protection Report Vol. 3 No. 10 (13th March 2009)

Health Protection Report Vol. 3 No. 11 (20th March 2009)

The Week: issue 87 (13th March 2009)

AHP Bulletin special issue: Leadership challenge, March 2009 (23rd March 2009)

CNO Bulletin, Issue 76, March 2009 (19th March 2009)

Children, Families and Maternity Bulletin, March 2009 (March 2009)

Medical Directors' Bulletin, issue 91, March 2009 (20th March 2009)

NHS Workforce Bulletin, issue 156 (23rd March 2009)

PHARMACY

NICE Clinical Guideline 76: Medicines Adherence - Quick reference sheet for pharmacists (11th February 2009)

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has developed Implementation Guidance to enable pharmacists to help patients understand why and how to take their medicines. The NICE guidance on Medicines Adherence is particulary relevant to pharmacists as they interact with patients in the context of prescribing, dispensing or medicine reviews.
Quick Reference Sheet

Pharmacy Practice: Medicines focussed and patient centred (17th February 2009)
The first ever Pharmacy Practice Framework has been published by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society outlining the many roles and functions which pharmacists are responsible and accountable for in their daily professional lives.
Framework

Repeat dispensing guidance (5th February 2009)
NHS Employers, the General Practitioners Committee and the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee have produced joint on-line guidance for practices, to support the implementation of repeat dispensing.
Guidance