A free guide designed to help NHS organisations to gain maximum value from the many tools and resources available to them to improve staff and wellbeing has been launched by Empactis.
Entitled 'Improving NHS Workforce Health - Making it Happen', the 20-page guide will be available in electronic form and downloadable from the Empactis website.
In the foreword to this guide, Dame Carol Black, Chair of the NHS Improvement Staff Health and Wellbeing Advisory Board and an Independent Advisor to the Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England, says: “There is a growing awareness within the NHS that enabling and supporting workforce health and wellbeing reduces absence and presenteeism whilst increasing care quality and productivity. For individual institutions, the dimensions of the challenge and what to do about them, are key.
"Three years’ work by many people and organisations has led to the production of an NHS Workforce Health and Wellbeing Framework – a valuable and detailed document. However, busy people might welcome a simple guide on how to use and apply the Framework in particular circumstances. The next few pages are just that. Do make the most of their wisdom and simplicity.”
The guide also features forewords from Louise Pratt, Project Lead for the NHS England and NHS Improvement Improving Health and Wellbeing Programme and Danny Mortimer, Chief Executive at NHS Employers and Deputy Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation.
Dr Steve Boorman CBE, Employee Health Director at Empactis, is a leading authority on employee health in his own right. He was the independent review lead for the NHS Staff Health and Wellbeing Review a.k.a. the Boorman Review, which laid the foundations for much of the reform around NHS staff health that is still evolving today.
Dr Boorman remains highly engaged in the area of public policy around occupational health and is passionate about the need for better health and wellbeing support for NHS carers. He comments: “It has never been as critical to improve how we care for our NHS carers as it is today. With demand and pressure on the NHS rising, ongoing budgetary constraints and a worrying recruitment gap, we must help every staff member to be healthy if they are to deliver good patient care, and if the NHS is to operate efficiently and meet its regulatory targets. Despite a vast amount of resource and help available, local organisations can find it hard to know where to start – that’s why we have developed this guide.”
The Making it Happen guide helps NHS readers to see the facts and imperatives of improving staff health and wellbeing in context and outlines the key elements that NHS Employers have identified as fundamental to support effective staff wellbeing. It explains the role of the Workforce Health and Wellbeing Framework and provides a comprehensive resource guide and list of web-links. All the information has been brought together in an easy-to-read guide, to help NHS Trusts take action and ‘make it happen’ around staff health.
Click here to download the guide.
Empactis is a health management system that is optimised to work with the NHS Employee Staff Record (ESR).
