NHS Employers: Improving staff retention (April 2022)

Summary

As organisations navigate the ongoing impact and fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, they must focus on strengthening the supply of our highly valued workforce and ensure that both new and existing staff are supported and encouraged to remain. In partnership with NHS England and NHS Improvement, NHS Employers has refreshed their retention guidelines.

There are two main objectives for this guide: first, ensuring it continues to draw on the latest learning and innovation from the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced employers to critically re-examine how to retain NHS staff. Second, ensuring it supports the ambitions set out within the NHS People Promise, so that employers can work to make this a lived reality for all NHS staff. To help achieve these objectives, this guide explores the experiences of organisations NHS Employers has worked with on retention.