PCT
— agenda for change
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Agenda
for change
Plans are in place to overhaul of the NHS pay system. All NHS jobs
have been carefully defined and judged against 16 criteria —
including responsibility for patient care, physical skills and emotional
effort — to determine where they sit on the eight new bands
in the Agenda for change pay system. It might be well worth
NHS influencers checking into this agenda here, as you should see
a lot of similarity in the way that their jobs are defined. One
interesting one is ‘responsibility for policy and service
development implementation.’ If this is in the job description
and they get paid for this, and if promotion depends on them showing
this competency, well…
PCT
— human resources
HR levels
It should also be of interest to NHS influencers that an article
in the Health Service Journal in 2003 described the chronic
shortage of human resources expertise in PCTs and general practice,
and the need for HR management in PCTs to be boosted. All the PCTs
studied also had concerns about the mixed quality of HR management
at GP practice level with most saying that they had been unable
to address this issue systematically. PCTs need effective HR support
and advice if they are to address successfully the tough local and
national agenda they are facing and NHS influencers could be of
assistance here.
In the study, one PCT
encouraged all of its GP practices to be good employers by, for
example, training GP and practice managers in key skills such as
recruitment and retention, staff appraisal and development. For
those of you looking for new offerings in an area that clearly crosses
both the GP practice and PCT agenda, here is one. It should be relatively
easy to adopt in-house practice to produce an attractive training
offering to allow industry PCT teams easier access. This would also
tie the GP and PCT agenda together internally and offer the potential
for further relationship building and the leveraging of this for
commercial gain. This is an area the industry does not generally
involve itself with. Better still if one could involve one’s
own HR department.
Further
information >
DH website: Agenda
for change
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