Leadership, Systems & Workforce

Recruiting and Retaining Nurses to Meet Workforce Demand

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

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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Intersectional Strategies to Drive Improvements in Workplace Equality

According to a 2021 survey by CIPHR, more than a third of UK adults felt they had been subject to discrimination in the workplace or when applying for a job. In this video, Godwin Daudu from AFiUK discusses how the system can be rebuilt and extended to accommodate diversity, with particular emphasis on racial discrimination in the workplace.

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Destigmatising Menopause in the Workplace to Create a More Supportive Organisational Culture

To date, more than 2,000 organisations have signed Wellbeing of Women’s Menopause Workplace Pledge. In this video, Jessica Easterbrook, Lead Consultant for Organisational Development at East Sussex County Council discusses the importance of employee data in developing menopause strategies. She further highlights the benefit and normalising talking about menopause in the workplace.

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Improving Staff Mental Wellbeing in Organisational Culture

Following the fall-out of Covid-19, wellbeing in the workplace is becoming increasingly important. In this video, Peter Kelly from Mates in Mind addresses the systemic change required within organisational culture to combat poor mental health amongst employees.

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An Overview of the Current State of NHS Funding and Finance

NHS financial budgets are increasing broadly in line with a long-run historical average rather than the larger increases committed during the New Labour years. In this video, Siva Anandaciva, Chief Analyst of The Kings Fund, outlines the current state of NHS funding and finance, highlighting questions of liminality and dissonance and what this means for finance leaders.

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Training and Funding Opportunities for Social Care Teams 2023

Training is an integral part of any social care team to ensure skills and support of patients are continually improved. Skills for Care discuss some of the training schemes social care teams can access this year and funding opportunities available to cover the costs of these development programmes.

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What the New Spring Budget Childcare Proposals Mean for Families and How Employers Can Help

In the 2023 Spring Budget, the Chancellor announced an increase in childcare 0f £288 million by 2024/25. Working Families discuss what these changes to the budget mean for families and the ways workplaces can support their employees who have young children.

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Improving Gender Identity Training Can Improve the Lives of Trans People Using NHS Services 

According to Stonewall, 45% of people have said their GP did not understand their needs as a trans person in the Trans Lives Survey. In this article, Dr Jamie Willo, child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist at Sussex Partnership Trust, shares their personal quest to ensure that trans people have timely access to NHS services and are treated by clinicians who understand their needs.

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Upholding Employment Laws and Legal Responsibilities to Hybrid Workers

9 in 10 employees consider flexible working to be a key motivator in their productivity at work. In this video, Georgia Roberts, an Associate in the Employment Team at Kingsley Napley discusses some of the recent changes to flexible working laws and advice to help organisations develop flexible working policies that support all employees.

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The Benefits of Collective Leadership

68% staff in the NHS say their manager works with them, helping them to overcome any problems they face in their role, according to the 2022 NHS Staff Survey. Scott Deacon is the Clinical Director of Outpatients for University Hospitals Bristol and Weston(UBHW) NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Director of Bristol Dental Hospital and the Clinical Lead for UBHW, in this infographic he shares the benefits of collective leadership in healthcare.

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Why it’s Time for a Holistic Approach to Supporting Returning Parents

Helping new mothers to return to work and planning for maternity leave are just two of the challenges employers face when supporting pregnant and postnatal employees. Returning Works® Founder Dr Emma Waltham explains why it’s time for a more systemic approach to supporting expectant and returning parents.

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