The Conservative Government awarded a pay rise of 1% for 2017/2018 in England to the hospital doctor pay scales. NHS pay was frozen in 2012 and 2013, and ...
Posts Tagged ‘Careers advice’
NHS nurses, midwives, managers and directors pay scales for 2016/2017
By Francesca Robinson - May 16th, 2016
Nurses and midwives in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have received a 1% pay increase for 2016/2017 after the four UK governments accepted t...
Learning from mistakes – a vital skill
By Dr Mike Roddis, director of Healthcare Performance
- April 22nd, 2013
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This quote from philosopher, George Santayana, is often applied to nation states bu...
Focus your energies on what you can change
By Dr Emma Sedgwick, Healthcare Performance - March 11th, 2013
Last week, entry to the Foundation Programme was thrown into chaos after marking errors were discovered in its situational judgement tests. The tests have ...
Knowing when you are out of your depth
By Jo Pointon - October 25th, 2012
I stood over my four-month-old patient, syringe of morphine in hand, concerned parent looking on, anxious nurse gently restraining the child. That’s when...
You have to be big enough to apologise
By Dr Emma Sedgwick, director Healthcare Performance - October 24th, 2012
The reaction to the much-parodied video of Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, not to mention other recent penitents such as footballer Ashley Cole (to the ...
Self-reflection helps overcome professional crisis
By Dr Emma Sedgwick, director Healthcare Performance
- September 24th, 2012
This week, the GMC revealed that the likelihood that it would investigate a doctor had increased from one in 68 in 2010 to one in 64 in 2011 after another ...
Plan the steps necessary to achieving your goals
By Dr Emma Sedgwick, director of Healthcare Performance
- June 15th, 2012
From inserting a urinary catheter to assessing a newly-admitted patient, during a busy hospital shift, you can expect to be bombarded with tasks from the m...
Maximising a doctor’s potential to succeed
By Dr Emma Sedgwick, director of Healthcare Performance - May 16th, 2012
There are few things worse than being stuck in traffic when you have an appointment. If you are anything like me, your pulse increases, tell-tale beads of ...
