NHS Staff and Learners' Mental Wellbeing Report

NHS Staff and Learners' Mental Wellbeing Report
Health Education England February 2019

• As part of Health Education England’s health and care workforce strategy, the NHS Staff and Learners’ Mental Wellbeing Commission set out to discover and review evidence of good practices for the mental health and wellbeing of staff and learners in NHS organisations. The Commission has examined successful interventions from around the country, to identify what has worked well and what could be adopted widely. The final report makes a number of recommendations which will be considered as part of the Workforce Development Plan outlined in the Long Term Plan.
• The report makes 33 recommendations including:
• 1. Establish a board level NHS Workforce Wellbeing Guardian in every NHS organisation 
• 2. All NHS organisations appoint a Workplace Wellbeing Leader to work with and report to the Workforce Wellbeing Guardian.
• 5. Healthcare providers (such as GP practices, hospitals, and care home operators) on a local (STP or ICS) footprint should create a schools’ work experience bureau service.
• 23. A national charter should be developed, working with patient groups, clinical professionals and their representative bodies, and regulators of the professions that seeks to examine the way that reflections, complaints and comments from patients and the public are handled in the NHS.