Leadership, Systems & Workforce • Government Events

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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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Intersectional Strategies to Drive Improvements in Workplace Equality

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May 2023

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

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May 2023

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

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Apr 2023

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

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Apr 2023

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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Upholding Employment Laws and Legal Responsibilities to Hybrid Workers

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Mar 2023

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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Mediating Strategies to Manage Conflict as a Female Leader

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Mar 2023

In a recent CIPD survey, a quarter of respondents said conflict was common in the workplace. Rachel Suff, Senior Policy Advisor for Employment Relations at CIPD discusses the challenges female leaders in the public sector face when handling these conflicts and strategies manage them.

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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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Training Staff and Developing Team Culture to Improve Safety and Outcomes for Mothers

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Jul 2022

Midwives are being driven out of the NHS by understaffing and fears they cannot deliver safe care to women in the current system. Gemma Puckett, Head of Midwifery at Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust shares the importance of developing positive workplace cultures to increase staff satisfaction and improve patient care.

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Implementing Preceptorship Programmes to Improve the Retention of New NHS Staff

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Jul 2022

In April 2021, there was a shortage of nearly 84,000 full-time equivalent staff across NHS England. Urgent action is required to tackle a vicious cycle of shortages and increased pressures on staff. Debbi Howard, Head of Clinical Education and Sarah Sumner, Clinical Director for Resuscitation, Simulation and Skills at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust discuss how preceptorship programmes can help improve staff retention in trusts.

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Gender at Work: Women on NHS Boards, Working Towards 50:50

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Feb 2022

Fiona Edwards from the Surrey and Border Partnership NHS Foundation Trust spoke to us about the presence of women on NHS Boards.

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