Point of Care Foundation, 15 January 2014
- According to this report not only necessary for healthcare providers to encourage staff engagement (the process by which staff come to have a positive attitude towards the organisation and its values) but to accelerate it.
- The report, which reviewed evidence from a wide range of sources, highlights that:
- Patient satisfaction is consistently higher in trusts with better rates of staff health and wellbeing
- There is a link between higher staff satisfaction and lower rates of mortality and hospital-acquired infection
- The NHS could save £555 million a year if it reduced sickness absence by a third.
- Stress and burnout are more frequent in the NHS than in other sectors. Approximately 30% of sickness absence in the NHS is due to stress.
