The right mix? A key debate on skill mix is due to be take place at the...

Community Practitioner;  October 1, 2008 ;     435 words ...[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Skill mix has always been a feature of good...could achieve alone. The problem for 'skill mix' as a label is that it has become...to genuinely mixed teams. However, skill mix is now a familiar feature of health...

The right mix?

Community Practitioner;  October 1, 2008 ;     469 words ...A key debate on skill mix is due to be take place at the annual...conference in Harrogate on 20 to 22 November Skill mix has always been a feature of good health...could achieve alone. The problem for 'skill mix" as a label is that it has become associated...

Hospitals must review their deployment policies. (Perspectives:...

Nursing Standard;  January 15, 2003 ;     92 words ...As co-author of the skill mix report Improving the Effectiveness...numbers of staff needed and the required skill mix, hospitals will need to review their...That may be an argument for diluting skill mix. But the caveat is that newly qualified...

Determining optimum caseloads

Community Practitioner;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......the UK. This was done with and without skill mix and taking into consideration the fact...presence or absence of corporate working and skill mix. They were not asked about public health...for over 400 families * Interestingly, skill mix support was available to some small...

Skill mix and grade mix

Community Practitioner;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......community nursery nurses and issues relating to skill mix. On a professional level this is a debate that...they typically reside in the acute sector. Genuine skill mix Genuine skill mix is a rational approach to workloads as it allows...

Skill mix development in health visiting: Meeting the agenda

Community Practitioner;  July 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Developing a skill mix is fraught with all the difficulties...requiring prioritisation of need and skill mix initiatives to rationalise increasing...However, management decided to pilot a skill mix initiative in Deptford, Creekside...

Members set the agenda: updating Unite/CPHVA's professional agenda.

Community Practitioner;  October 1, 2008 ;     336 words ......caseload numbers and inappropriate decisions regarding skill mix? * How should Unite/CPHVA support its members to contribute...attendees last year regarding increasing caseloads and skill mix was to ensure that members: * Are fully equipped to be...The professional team have been asked to help ...

Trusts may cut specialist posts to balance books: nursing directors at...

Nursing Standard;  April 2, 2003 ;     374 words ......he said. Although staffing levels and skill mix are matters for trusts to decide locally...guidance for nurse managers on setting the skill mix. Earlier this year all trust directors...measuring the effect of staffing costs and skill mix on patient outcomes. Stephen Moss, chair...

Survey shows ongoing crisis in health visiting

Community Practitioner;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......This probably reflects both increases in skill mix and widespread reductions in health visitor...and it is not yet clear what level of skill mix is safe and effective. Respondents were...the health visitor's access to them. Is skill mix working? Participants in the survey were...

Minimum staffing ratios: the California workforce initiative...

Nursing Economics;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......attempted to staff with a richer or leaner RN skill mix (proportion of RNs to total staff) (Clifford...1975; Wobbe, 1978). These changes in skill mix have gone by many names including primary...work redesign, or simply changing the skill mix. Although quality of patient care is...

CPHVA lobbies MPs over North East school nurse review

Community Practitioner;  April 1, 2000 ;     281 words ......number of issues, including a proposed skill mix and plans for two professionals to take...for School Nursing (NFSN) recommends skill mix, it says this should only be decided...needs is extreme folly'. `The proposed skill mix in Durham is basically a "grade mix...

Conference looks at skill mix and workforce development.(NEWS AND...

Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand;  December 1, 2007 ;     294 words ......workforce was a common theme of a number of papers presented to a skill mix and workforce development conference in Melbourne Last month...part of the nursing team. A range of different approaches to skill mix development and future workforce shortages were presented at...

Skill mix in radiography

Synergy;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......radiography is undoubtedly the national skill mix projects. For diagnostic imaging, radiology...Whilst we are assured that the national skill mix projects will produce cogent evidence to support skill mix changes in radiography, other forms of...

Jaguar to cut 400 jobs

AP Worldstream;  September 19, 2002 ;     131 words ......He said the cuts were being made to improve the firm's skill mix and had nothing to do with sales figures. It is an entirely voluntary program. This is more about getting the right skill mix. Global sales are actually up by 57 percent from last...

Radiographer development: A local approach to a national initiative

Synergy;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Infirmary implemented Scotland's first skill mix initiative combining assistant practice...radiography workforce through innovative use of skill mix. The strategy acknowledged the valuable...and Radiotherapy (ANCHOR) introduced skill mix in 2002, our aim was not just to create...