Department of Health written question – answered at on 14 December 2016.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve the morale of the NHS workforce.
The Department uses staff engagement as a proxy for measuring National Health Service staff morale and the 2015 NHS Staff Survey showed an improvement in the overall engagement score for the NHS. The 2016 NHS Staff Survey is due to be published early next year.
The Department is not complacent about NHS staff morale given the wide variation in engagement scores, so continues to commission NHS Employers to support trusts in improving staff engagement and staff health and wellbeing1 through advice, guidance and good practice.
NHS Employers is also working with NHS England and Public Health England on NHS England’s initiative2 to improve staff health and wellbeing which includes a “CQUIN”3 (Commissioning for Quality and Innovation), a new three part indicator focussing on getting staff better access to health and wellbeing initiatives, supporting them to make healthy choices and lead healthy lives.
The “call to action” to NHS bodies to tackle high levels of bullying and harassment in the NHS was launched on 7 December 2016 by the Social Partnership Forum which includes the Department, employers and unions. This initiative drew on evidence and frontline experiences which were developed into a range of resources, advice and good practice to enable organisations to develop their own plans to tackle bullying in the NHS.
Notes:
1 http://www.nhsemployers.org/your-workforce/retain-and-improve/staff-experience
2 https://www.england.nhs.uk/2015/09/improving-staff-health/
3 https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cquin-guidance-16-17-v3.pdf
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