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Operating equal opportunities in the Health Service

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The British National Health Service (NHS) is undertaking equal opportunities initiatives to improve the working conditions of the large numbers of women and ethnic minority staff in its employ. The reorganization of the NHS as a purchaser/provider with increasingly independent management units has highlighted the need to emphasize equal opportunities programs to ensure that this crucial issue is not sidelined in the realignment of service contracts between purchaser and provider districts. Two key players, Minister of Health Virginia Bottomley and the Equal Opportunities Commission, have taken the lead in the initiative for the advancement of women and minorities in the NHS. Both stress the need for urgent management-led action in such programs.

Admin. of public health programs, Reports, Social policy, Employment discrimination, United Kingdom. Equal Opportunities Commission, Bottomley, Virginia

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Work permits with tiers, a guide to the new system

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The British Department of Employment (DE) has introduced a simplified two-tier work-permit system. A key objective of the new work-permit rules is to make it easier for highly qualified applicants to obtain work permits in a reasonably quick period of time. The new rules allow this by specifying a simplified procedure for applications classified as Tier 1 cases, such as those involving employees transfering within international companies and applicants who are workers in occupations suffering acute labor shortages. A more complicated procedure is necessary for applications which are classified as Tier 2 cases, such as those involving applicants already in the UK and applicants holding career development permits.

United Kingdom, Laws, regulations and rules, Employment, Alien labor, Manpower policy, Foreign labor, United Kingdom. Department of Employment

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Peter Drummond: President, National Association of Health Service Personnel Officers

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National Assn of Health Service Personnel Officers (Nahspo) Pres Peter Drummond believes that Nahspo is filling a need for leadership in the UK's National Health Service (NHS). Many hospital employees do not feel valued, and the Nahspo can help the NHS improve employer-employee relationships. Personnel managers should focus on the factors that increase employee satisfaction. Drummond hopes that more junior employees will consult Nahspo because they have more potential for changing the human resources function.

Drummond, Peter

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