Headlines, PublicNet: 22 September, 2000
A major recruitment drive to attract people to work for the NHS in London and the South East is to focus on making the prospect more attractive. The thrust of the drive is focussed at changing the experience of the job as much as relying on a traditional advertising-based recruitment campaign.It will target the disincentives to work, such as lack of childcare and housing. An extra thirty million pounds is being injected into improved childcare. Every Trust is to have a child-care co-ordinator who will act as a parents’ advocate for flexible working patterns NHS managers have also been asked to consider making special efforts to retain staff who may have been planning to retire early.
