Health Manpower Management: Volume 18 Issue 3
Table of contents
Evaluation of a Service Development Group
Sue MacdonaldAddresses the subject of evaluation of performance of a MentalHealth Services Management Development Group over the period of oneyear. Looks at the issues of…
Scotland Empowering Staff
Susanne J.B. TaylorReport on the NAHSPO Scottish branch conference of 3 April 1992with the umbrella title of “Empowering Staff”.
Meeting Employees′ Needs through On‐site Child Care. Health Care
Phyllis Hope, J. Fred RayworthReports on the Canadian public service sector, which has led theway in providing employer‐sponsored on‐site child care for employees.Suggests that such child care may be…
Implementing a Health Care Assistant Strategy
Ken HutchinsonAll nursing auxiliaries with over five years service were given theopportunity to receive both NVQ training and assessment to level 2 and asmall financial inducement. New…
NAHSPO News
Susanne J.B. TaylorProvides an update on various National Association of HealthService Personnel Officers (NAHSPO) activities: the forthcoming annualconference in October at Blackpool; link…
Assessing and Training at Work
Doris M. DunnInvestigates the values of Behaviourally Anchored Rating Scales(BARS), in assessing and training student nurses at work. Sevenexperienced practitioners had been asked to…
Making Equality Happen – Conference Report
Barbara MillarDiscusses the National Association of Health Service PersonnelOfficers (NAHSPO) first ever one‐day conference which took a look at thestate of equal opportunities in the NHS.
Doctors and Managers in Yorkshire – A Meeting of Minds
Helen Jones, Carole S. Gazey, Sophia M. MartinDescribes the need to improve communication between doctors andmanagers in the NHS, to enable them to work together. Describes anapproach to management development based…
Doctors and Teachers: A Tale of Two Professions?
John Hugh LloydDespite the claim of cultural uniqueness, so often used to defendcurrent practices in the health sector, there are significant commonfeatures and lessons across the range…
Team Building – The Need to Balance Customer and Employee Needs
Nigel CodmanTotal quality management (TQM) programmes and “management ofchange” are procedures only as effective as the research whichguides them and must rely on the commitment and…