NHS Health and Wellbeing Framework

NHS health and wellbeing framework
NHS England 4 November 2021

• This framework is a high-level culture change toolkit aimed at health and wellbeing staff, human resources (HR) and organisational development (OD) staff, HR and OD directors, wellbeing guardians, managers and leaders, and anyone with an interest in health and wellbeing. It is made up of four documents: strategic overview; elements of health and wellbeing; diagnostic tool; and implementation guide.

Welfare facilities for healthcare staff

Welfare facilities for healthcare staff
NHS Employers 13 September 2021

• Guidance to support NHS organisations to improve their provision of staff welfare facilities. This guidance includes the case for improving and providing welfare facilities and the legal requirements for organisations to have suitable and sufficient facilities for staff. The work is supported by case studies outlining how organisations have made improvements.

"Enjoying work takes work"

“Enjoying Work Takes Work” [blog]
IHI 12 May 2021

• An overview of the quality improvement work at East London NHS FT including their use of the IHI Framework for Improving Joy in Work to support their Enjoying Work programme.

The changing face of medical professionalism and the impact of COVID-19

The changing face of medical professionalism and the impact of COVID-19
The Lancet 23 February 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00436-0

• In an article in The Lancet, Professor Andrew Goddard, president of the Royal College of Physicians, discusses the tensions that COVID-19 has placed on medical professionalism and physician wellbeing. He argues that there is an urgent need for a system-level approach to address the issues that COVID-19 has created to better protect and safeguard the medical workforce for the future. The wellbeing initiatives that have been introduced for clinicians need to be combined with organisational interventions including flexible working arrangements, enhanced teamwork, reductions in administrative burdens, and optimal use of technology.

Evidence and resources on workplace wellbeing

Evidence and resources on workplace wellbeing
What Works Wellbeing

• WWW resources on workplace wellbeing.

How cost effective is a workplace wellbeing activity?

How cost effective is a workplace wellbeing activity?
What works wellbeing June 2020

• A how-to guide and calculator – with a detailed user manual – to help you evaluate and compare the cost effectiveness of wellbeing activities in the workplace.
• One of the WWW Evidence and resources on workplace wellbeing

App for increased staff engagement in NHS trust

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust launches pioneering app for increased staff engagement
HealthTechDigital 31 July 2019

• Croydon Health Services NHS Trust is the latest to roll out an app from Ryalto designed to improve the working and professional lives of its healthcare staff. The platform enables healthcare professionals to manage their working day and acts as a safe and singular source of communication for all employees. Other users include Milton Keynes University Hospital.

Fair to refer

Fair to refer
GMC 25 June 2019

• Research commissioned by the GMC concludes that disproportionate referrals of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) doctors to fitness to practise processes could be driven by poor induction and support, working patterns which leave them isolated and poor feedback by managers.

NHS Staff Survey 2018

NHS Staff Survey 2018

• The results of the NHS Staff Survey 2018 are now available. The various outputs that are created as a result of the survey's publication can be found below, or on the online results site, along with a description as to what each output includes.
• An overview of where each output is published is available here.

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.

Voluntary reporting on employee disability, mental health and wellbeing

Voluntary reporting on disability, mental health and wellbeing
Department for Work and Pensions and Department of Health and Social Care 22 November 2018

• The voluntary reporting framework has been developed by the government in partnership with leading businesses and third sector organisations to support employers to voluntarily report information on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.
• It is aimed at organisations with over 250 employees, but can be used by employers of any size.
• The framework also sets out:
• the benefits of increased transparency in the workplace
• guidance on how data can be collected, and where it can be reported
• links to further support

Framework for Improving Joy in Work

IHI Framework for Improving Joy in Work. [Free registration required]
IHI White Paper. Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2017

• This white paper is intended to serve as a guide for health care organizations to engage in a participative process where leaders ask colleagues at all levels of the organization, “What matters to you?” — enabling them to better understand the barriers to joy in work, and co-create meaningful, high-leverage strategies to address these issues.
• The white paper describes the following:
• The importance of joy in work (the “why”);
• Four steps leaders can take to improve joy in work (the “how”);
• The IHI Framework for Improving Joy in Work: nine critical components of a system for ensuring a joyful, engaged workforce (the “what”);
• Key change ideas for improving joy in work, along with examples from organizations that helped test them; and
• Measurement and assessment tools for gauging efforts to improve joy in work.