Admin staff

The NHS should improve the skills of administrative staff to reduce waiting lists

Consultants are expected to work from home, administrative staff honed and school leavers recruited into a ‘new workforce model’ aimed at reducing NHS waiting times. Professor Sir Mike Richards, the new chairman of the National Screening Committee, an independent body that makes screening recommendations to health officials, has proposed sweeping changes. These include allowing non-clinical […]

Admin staff

DHBs settle pay equity claim with hospital administrative staff

DAVID WHITE / Stuff Administrative and clerical staff at the hospital are set to get a pay rise now that a pay equity claim has been settled. Wage increases are on the way for hospital clerks as a landmark pay equity claim is settled between their union and district health boards that will see some […]