More than half a million NHS staff use NHSmail, the single, secure email system set up under the National Programme for IT in 2004 used in both England and Scotland. It allows health service staff to keep the same nhs.net email address for as long as they work for an organisation providing healthcare services (including companies and social enterprises) which makes a lot of sense given the great majority of people starting a job in the NHS have moved from another health service organisation. It is also used by many NHS trusts and boards which prefer to stick with organisational email addresses. Continue reading “NHSmail2: NHSmail has a future, and it looks quite Google-y”
Category: Healthcare
NHS jobs since the election: more doctors, fewer nurses and managers
Earlier this month, the Royal College of Nursing said that 61,276 posts in the English NHS have either gone since the general election, or are at risk. This figure comes from numerous sources including trust board papers, so it’s hard to check. But the RCN also says that the number of posts that have actually gone since May 2010 is 20,790, using NHS Information Centre data. While correct on publication, this now needs updating – NHS jobs in England are now down 24,221 between the election and August this year (in terms of full-time equivalent posts, FTEs), a 2.3% reduction in the workforce. Continue reading “NHS jobs since the election: more doctors, fewer nurses and managers”
Commissioning support units and managing directors mapped
The NHS Commissioning Board has published a list of the managing directors of commissioning support units (CSUs), which will provide support services to most clinical commissioning groups. We don’t yet know exactly which CCGs will be using CSUs, but there is enough information to put them on a map, along with their managing directors and email addresses. Continue reading “Commissioning support units and managing directors mapped”
Where are the NHS jobs: the biggest NHS employers mapped
Everyone in England needs healthcare, so you might imagine that NHS jobs would be fairly evenly distributed based on population.* That isn’t quite the case, as this interactive map, using data from the NHS Information Centre on the largest English NHS employers and each region, shows. Continue reading “Where are the NHS jobs: the biggest NHS employers mapped”
Further reading: the US elections, healthcare and Obamacare
Healthcare – specifically, the future of the current president’s ‘Obamacare’ plan – is a major issue in the US election. As Barack Obama joked last week about Mitt Romney (reported by the Independent):
He is hoping you come down with a severe case of Romnesia just before you cast your ballot… [with symptoms including] headaches, the eyes getting blurry, but don’t worry – Obamacare covers pre-existing conditions! Continue reading “Further reading: the US elections, healthcare and Obamacare”