Recommendation 10

HM Government · verbatim extract Accepted

3.7 As detailed in recommendation 2, the annual NHS Staff Survey provides a key indication of staff wellbeing across NHS Trusts. The new Wellbeing Dashboard incorporates relevant questions from the staff survey alongside other measures such as sickness absence and vacancy rates to provide a more rounded assessment of wellbeing at an organisational level. 3.8 The survey is administered annually so staff views can be monitored over time, with an additional Quarterly Pulse Survey introduced in 2021, creating more opportunities for staff to have a voice that counts. Results are available for individual NHS organisations and national level results are presented with a breakdown by organisation type, staff group and demographic characteristics. This allows us to compare the experiences of staff in similar organisations, and to compare the experiences of staff in a particular organisation with the national picture. 3.9 Results from the NHS Staff Survey, along with other metrics such as sickness absence rates, are used to measure the success of the NHS People Plan, the NHS Long Term Plan and broader workforce policy interventions to ensure we drive improvements in staff wellbeing. 3.10 Using this suite of indicators captures the multitude of factors that may explain health and wellbeing variation between trusts. These quantitative datasets are considered alongside qualitative data to enable a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of progress.