A summary of the HR and H&S updates issued in July 2023 HR Updates Amber alerts Calculating pay for holiday on termination of employment Green alerts Disability discrimination – Not using probationary period properly Employer liable for rape and harassment of female worker at work event

If you’ve worked in the NHS for any length of time, you’ll probably have heard about the Bradford Factor. It’s a simple formula that allows employers to monitor short-term sickness absence, and it’s an important tool in the absence management arsenal. It’s a weighted system as regular short absences tend to be harder to manage…

This year’s Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) from NHS England includes quality improvement requirements relating to ‘workplace and wellbeing’. What do these terms mean? OK, I think we all know what a workplace is, but the ‘wellbeing’ part is less easy to define. It might sound a bit touchy-feely to some. Does it refer to…

A summary of the HR and H&S updates issued in June 2023. HR Updates Amber alerts Upcoming enhanced family friendly legislation Considering flexible working requests Green alerts Disability discrimination – “meltdowns” due to short temper, not disability

In this month’s HR clinic, Robyn Clark (aka JacksonR) and Susi O’Brien (HR Help advisor) explored how we as managers can support and improve the wellbeing of our teams, implement strategies to support staff and look after our own resilience. Here is a summary of the questions we received, and the answers given. Wellbeing seems…

As an advisor on Practice Index’s HR Help service, I see a lot of questions that relate to disability in the workplace. These include how Practice Managers can best support disabled employees, and how to manage tricky situations involving absence or performance. In this blog, I’m going to quickly run through the most important aspects…

Life is challenging at the moment, to say the least, for our staff and for ourselves. So what can we do to try and help improve the wellbeing of our teams? Employee wellbeing is now integrated into QOF and encourages us to take a more pragmatic look at supporting our team. Our HR clinic will…