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Author:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 2004
Abstract:: Improving health and social care is a political priority in the United Kingdom. Boosting the number of health care workers and making better use of their skills are central objectives of the Government's plans for reform. However, recruitment and retention are major problems for the NHS, particularly in inner cities ...

Author:: North West London Workforce Development Confederation, Buchan, James, S.H.R.I.N.E. (Network for NHS London Human Resources Managers), King's Fund, Finlayson, Belinda, South West London Workforce Development Confederation, Gough, Pippa, South East London Workforce Development Confederation, Queen Margaret University College Edinburgh, North Central London Workforce Development Confederation, and North East London Workforce Development Confederation
Publication date:: 2003
Abstract:: This new policy paper, which follows up an interim report published in 2002, aims to take a fresh look at the issues facing planners, policy makers and managers responsible for maintaining and developing the health care workforces in London, and to tease out some of the opportunities, as well as ...

Author:: Meadows, Sandra and King's Fund
Publication date:: 2002
Abstract:: This research summary examines a key aspect of NHS staffing: that of the loss of experience from health services as older staff, who are valuable and much needed, leave early in ever-increasing numbers. With a workforce where about 150,000 of the one million employed are aged 50 or over, and ...

Author:: King's Fund and Meadows, Sandra
Publication date:: 2002
Abstract:: This is the executive summary of a research summary which examines a key aspect of NHS staffing: that of the loss of experience from health services as older staff, who are valuable and much needed, leave early in ever-increasing numbers. With a workforce where about 150,000 of the one million ...

Author:: The King's Fund, Hutt, Ruth, and Buchan, James
Publication date:: 2005
Abstract:: The specific dynamics of the London health care labour market, and the challenges they create for recruitment and retention, were highlighted in the 2003 King's Fund report 'In Capital Health?'. In the 18 months since, a number of important and far reaching changes have been initiated across the NHS. This ...

Author:: King's Fund, Meadows, Sandra, Baeza, Juan, and Levenson, Ros
Publication date:: 2000
Abstract:: There are significant recruitment and retention problems in nursing in the NHS. Nurses are leaving the NHS at a faster rate than they are being recruited. A review of the existing literature and research undertaken over the last 15 years has highlighted a number of apparently consistent themes in barriers ...

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