With the proposed system reforms, staff transfers and efficiency savings it is essential that staff engagement, health and well-being and morale remain a priority, to ensure that NHS staff are engaged, valued and healthy, and in a position to continue to deliver high quality services. This page brings together case studies and good practice from NHS organisations which have used partnership working to deliver this.
NHS staff survey:
Using analysis of the 2008/09 staff survey results we identified NHS organisations who have made improvements in our priority areas and approached them to work with us to draw out the shared learning from their experiences.
Blackpool. Fylde and Wyre Hospitals Foundation Trust
Tackling workplace stress
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Improving staff satisfaction and staff engagement
NHS Plymouth
Tackling harassment and bullying
Somerset Partnership NHS Trust
Improving staff appraisals.
Staff engagement:
Knowsley Primary Care Trust: partnership working “better staff morale and motivation”
Knowsley PCTs experience of partnership working is that, if it is embedded at all levels within an organisation, it can play a key role in encouraging better staff morale, motivation and help to maintain confidence in the workforce in difficult times.
Improved employee relations at Sandwell Mental Health and Social Care NHS Foundation TrustThis case study looks at how Sandwell Mental Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust has developed its involvement agenda from a traditional consultative framework to a engaging and responsive staff forum.