NHS Employers

NHS Employers was formed by the NHS Confederation in 2004. It represents trusts in England on workforce issues and helps employers to ensure the NHS is a place where people want to work. The NHS workforce is at the heart of quality patient care and it believes that employers must drive the workforce agenda.

NHS Employers works with employers to reflect their views and act on their behalf in four priority areas; pay and negotiations, recruitment and planning the workforce, healthy and productive workplaces, employment policy and practice

It keeps employers up to date with the latest workforce thinking; provide practical advice and information; and help them to network and share knowledge.

NHS Employers has strong partnerships with Government, trade unions and other stakeholders means we can promote employers' interests at the highest levels, addressing current workforce issues and helping to shape the future.

NHS Employers is part of the NHS Confederation and the Department of Health sets the broad framework within which it operates, but it is employers themselves who drive the agenda.

NHS Employers is also responsible for [http://www.jobs.nhs.uk/ [NHS Jobs] and [http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/ [NHS Careers]

Annual conference

NHS Employers holds an [http://www.nhsemployers.org/2008 [annual conference] and this is a key highlight in the year for senior workforce and human resource professionals in the health service. The programme goes beyond HR to cover the workforce issues and strategies essential to a changing NHS. This year's event takes place in Birmingham 4-6 November 2008.

The conference is based around four themes of engaging staff for success, facing the future, focus on fundamentals, and policy into practice, the conference offers a unique opportunity for healthcare leaders to discuss workforce issues, exchange views and ideas and expand their knowledge.

Key speakers include:

*Clare Chapman, Director General of Workforce, Department of Health
*Sahar Hashemi, Founder of Coffee Republic and leading business writer
*Gareth Malone, Composer and presenter of the BBC series The Choir
*David Nicholson, Chief Executive of the NHS
*Chair: Edward Stourton, BBC Broadcaster, author and journalist

The healthy workplaces handbook

NHS Employers produces "The healthy workplaces handbook", an NHS reference guide to health, safety and welfare at work. It is available in hardcopy or online [http://www.healthyworkplaces.org.uk/ The Healthy Workplaces Handbook]

External links

* [http://www.nhsemployers.org/ NHS Employers website]
* [http://www.nhsconfed.org/ NHS Confederation website]
* [http://www.nhsemployers.org/2008/ NHS Employers annual conference and exhibition 2008]
* [http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/ NHS Careers]
* [http://www.jobs.nhs.uk/ NHS Jobs]