The importance of staff engagement has been recognised in the Coalition Government’s White Paper - Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS.Page 40 of the White Paper says:
“Staff who are empowered, engaged and well supported provide better patient care. We will therefore promote staff engagement, partnership working and the implementation of Dr Steve Boorman’s recommendations to improve staff health and wellbeing”.
The Social Partnership Forum believes that the NHS staff survey has an important part to play in the relationship that the NHS has with its employees.
We have developed this narrative to:
- outline the business case for acting on the NHS staff survey results; through partnership working
- update and inform regional SPFs, TU representatives and NHS managers locally on national activity and resources with regards to priority areas identified by the NHS staff survey
Contents:
Why is the NHS staff survey important?
- Current NHS priorities
- Staff survey results and the links to better patient care
- The role of partnership working
- Practical tools
Staff survey results and SPF priorities
- Work related stress
- Violence against staff by patients and families
- Harassment, bullying and abuse
- Staff appraisals
- Staff engagement
Linking SPF priorities to policies and initiatives
- NHS Constitution
- The Boorman Review on health and well-being in the NHS
- Partnership working and Improving Working Lives
- NHS Staff Passport
- QIPP
- Regulators
- Supporting patient choice and public assurances