Lloydspharmacy is to open a pilot health village in North London at the end of August as part of their plan to evolve into an all round health care provider. The health village will open at Brent South Shopping Park and provide services including an opticians, a chiropodist, a physiotherapist, an audiologist and skin care clinics.
Employment of locums in the NHS will have a negative effect on patient care according to niche job board BritishMedicalJobs MD, Andre Shelton.
There has been a 55% increase in demand for locum vacancies due to the withdrawal of key services from the NHS. The problem is that a health service that is overstretched will almost certainly suffer if it needs to rely on a greater percentage of locum staff. Temps have their place in the workforce but it would be unfair to apply so much pressure to an unstable solution.
NHS West Midlands health authority is creating 467 new front line jobs despite other jobs across the region being cut as the authority faces austerity measures. New health visitor posts to improve child and family health in the community will play a more regular and larger role in checking the safety of children when they going into homes.
The UK job market has hit it’s lowest level of growth in 10 months. It raises new concerns about the strength and stability of the UK employment market. The public sector and some other sectors are beginning to feel job shortages.
Although job numbers have fallen for the first time in almost a year. There are some opportunities in some sectors, such as chefs, nurses, HR, finance, engineers and internet developers where vacancies still exist and skilled workers can source employment in both permanent and temporary jobs.
Temporary jobs have been created for 237 young people and the long-term unemployed in Cambridgeshire after £1.5m of Government funding.
The money has been given to Cambridgeshire Together, a group of the county’s public and voluntary organisations and the temporary jobs will become available in February in tourism and leisure, community development and health and administration.
