London
Find out more about the London SPF
The London SPF comprises employers, trade unions, and NHS Employers' engagement team.
Priorities for 2026/27
- Sharing information on relevant and topical matters (including NHSE London regional updates).
- Horizon scanning to identify areas of focus i.e. including 10-year health plan/10-year workforce plan, the future of work (and readiness for the Employment Rights Act 2025)
- NHS structural reform/changing landscape and organisational change (with NHSE London).
- Improving the experience of staff in London/inclusion and belonging (NHS Staff Survey data-driven where applicable).
Achievements in 2023/24
- We continued dialogue for a partnership approach across London to support systems to accelerate progress in attracting young people in London to work and remain in the NHS.
- Our staff side members participated in the national people policy frameworks working group on menopause, pregnancy and baby loss.
- We promoted job evaluation best practice and ways of working in partnership.
- We provided information to staff side and system leaders on the policy thinking and implementation of the Right Care Right Person policing model. A member of staff side was invited to join a working group on this.
- We ran another successful annual London partnership conference - partnership working through challenging times and looking to the future.
Meet the team
- Trade union chair - Debbie Eakins - Regional Organiser, UNISON
- Management chair - Jinjer Kandola, Chief Executive Officer, North London NHS Foundation Trust
