Knowledge & Insight

Restructuring and mergers: Protecting the employers brand

11/12/2009 by Beverley Steel, Simon McDonald

Reforms which have tended to diversify the provision of public services are combining with financial retrenchment, more assertive regulation and increasing competition for contracts, to create fertile ground for mergers and...

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Recruiting Non-Executive Directors to the NHS

07/12/2009 by Carmel Gibbons

Recruiting Chairs and Non‐Executives to NHS organisations is a critical task requiring a robust process that complies with good practice recruitment and governance requirements. In this paper we outline the key factors in running...

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Making the Transition into the NHS: A Guide for Candidates and Recruiting Panels

07/12/2009 by Carmel Gibbons

The NHS is facing significant challenges in its recruitment for top executive positions due to workforce shortages. We are all familiar with feedback from the recruitment market around the difficulties of recruiting to senior...

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Cabinet Office senior level recruitment 2009/2010

01/12/2009

Odgers Berndtson is the government's leading recruiter at senior levels - the No 1 recruiter in the Cabinet Office 2009 tender assessment process. We have strengthened our exceptional search and assessment services over the past...

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Review of the Effectiveness of the Combined Code - A Response to the Second Consultation

13/10/2009 by Virginia Bottomley, Kit Bingham

We welcome the opportunity to comment on the second phase of the FRC’s review of the effectiveness of the Combined Code.

As we said in our first response, we believe the Code continues to work well and that attention should be...

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