NHS Staff Survey results 2021
Staff at UHDB have again said that the Trust is the place where they would like their families to receive treatment. Each year, the NHS nationally undertakes an anonymous staff survey, with the survey this year being conducted 18 months into the Covid-19 pandemic. Nearly 7,000 staff took part, a far higher proportion than the national average.
UHDB staff said they believed UHDB is the best place to work and that the care of patients was the organisation’s top priority. Both areas scored well above the national average. For ‘Care of patients / service users is my organisation's top priority’ we scored 78% against the national average of 75.5%. For ‘I would recommend my organisation as a place to work’ we scored 64.1% against the national average of 58.4%.
Nearly 75% of staff said they agreed with the key question of “if a friend or relative needed treatment, I would be happy with the standard of care provided by this organisation”, which is well above the national average of 66.9%.
Amanda Rawlings, Chief People Officer, said: “A measure of any NHS trust has to be whether the staff that work there would want their friends and family to be treated there too and that certainly continues to be the overwhelming message of UHDB colleagues. Overall we’re pleased with the response by staff during what has been an exceptionally difficult time. There had been as overall reduction in morale in the NHS during the pandemic nationally, something we have experienced at UHDB, which is only to be expected.
“The pandemic is far from over and we’re continuing to care for as many patients now as we did in the peaks of May 2020 and January 2022. That’s why we are placing the wellbeing of our staff as one of our top priorities. This include a comprehensive package of support that ranges from tools and tips to maintaining wellbeing right through to full counselling should that be needed. Our people are our greatest asset and these survey results show that they continue to believe they are providing high standards of care.”