With one in five working-age Brits out of work and not even looking for a job, ministers are very worried about Britain’s ‘economic inactivity crisis’. People drop out of working life for all sorts of reasons, but the biggest is ill-health — people on long-term sick leave or claiming various state disability or incapacity benefits.… Read more: Fit for work, or not the right fit?

Today’s Financial Times(£) reports “City executives” wetting their pants about the UK’s minimum wage (£12.20 an hour), which is apparently getting too close for comfort to the meagre starting salaries finance and professional service firms pay their graduate recruits: Several chief executives have voiced their fears about the impact on recruitment if the minimum wage… Read more: The overpaid ‘shelf-stackers’ giving City chiefs a headache

The latest issue of Healthcare Manager, the quarterly magazine for managers in the NHS and social care, is out now. This one turned into a bit of a ‘reform special’, with the fallout from the Darzi review into the state of the NHS (there’s a very good summary of Lord Darzi’s findings from the NHS… Read more: Out now: Winter 2024-25 issue of Healthcare Manager

I’m editor of Healthcare Manager, the magazine published by Managers in Partnership (MiP), the trade union for NHS and social care managers.

I’m editor of Healthcare Manager, the magazine published by Managers in Partnership (MiP), the trade union for NHS and social care managers.