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Recruiting and Retaining Nurses to Meet Workforce Demand

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Jul 2023

The 2023 NHS Longterm Workforce Plan lays out a plan to increase the nursing workforce from 170,000 to 190,000 nurses, outlining training and resources needed for the future. In this video, Wendy Preston, Head of Nursing for the Royal College of Nursing shares resources for trusts to support and value staff helping solve the retention issues in the nursing workforce.

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Happy, Healthy and Heard: Ensuring Staff feel Supported at Work

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Jul 2023

The 2022 NHS Staff Survey found that 44.8% of NHS staff felt unwell as a result of work-related stress. In this video Alexandra Bode-Tunji discusses the joy at work people strategy and the positive impacts the strategy has had on staff wellbeing in addition to patient care.

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National Strategies to Expand and Retain the Nursing Workforce

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Feb 2023

Over 27,000 people left the Nursing and Midwifery Council Register in 2021-2022. Sarah White is Workforce Policy Advisor at NHS Providers. She delivers the organisations’ influencing priorities relating to NHS staff on behalf of all Trusts and Foundation Trusts in England. In this video, Sarah shares strategies to attract a diverse workforce including flexible working structures. She discusses creating a sustainable pipeline within nursing widening the pathways to increase access to nursing.

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Infographics

Representation of Ethnic Minorities in the NHS

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Feb 2022

1.3 million people were employed by the NHS in March 2020. However, only 22.1% of those employed were from minority ethnic backgrounds. In this infographic, we explore some of the data on the current make-up of the NHS workforce across England.

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Case Studies

How a Buddy System is Helping to Retain Nurses at Gateshead Trust

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Oct 2021

With nurse retention rates at an all time low, Gateshead NHS Trust has developed a strategy to make new starters feel welcome and prepared, whilst giving more experienced staff a new lease of life and job satisfaction.

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Articles

An Organisational Approach to Health and Wellbeing: Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust

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Apr 2021

Data from last year’s NHS Staff survey (2020) shows that 40% of respondents from Royal Brompton & Harefield, experienced work-related stress [2]. This article covers how the Trust are tackling this issue.

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