Purpose – Illustrates how the NHS workforce‐review team looks at the area of medical workforce planning and some of the problems that planners face. Design/methodology/approach – Describes a structure for workforce planning and examines some of the challenges workforce planners and those...

A discussion is presented of the elements in Human Resource Planning and how they can be incorporated into a common denominator of costs. This is the framework for a report on a study of loss and recruitment of nurses in a typical district general hospital and analysis of the nurse labour market...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the challenges faced by a small, specialized NHS organization in recruiting and retaining a high quality workforce in a highly competitive market. Design/methodology/approach – The paper focuses on four main areas: recruitment, employee...

Purpose – The paper seeks to report on an audit undertaken in 2010 to support implementation of the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) processes by National Health Service (NHS) Trusts. The ISA was set up under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (SVGA) 2006. Concern has been...

The research reported in this article was conducted among nurses in a teaching hospital in Perth, Western Australia. The study looked at the perceived influence of different items on the job satisfaction of urses. It was discovered that intrinsic motivators were the major motivators for the...