Summary
The NHS Staff Survey is one of the largest workforce surveys in the world and is carried out every year to improve staff experiences across the NHS. It asks staff in England about their experiences of working for their respective NHS organisations. 648,594 staff responded to the survey this year. The full results of the 2021 NHS Staff Survey are published on the NHS Staff Survey website.
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Key points included:
- 67.8% of staff are happy with the standard of care provided by their organisation, a decrease of more than 6 percentage points from 2020 (74.2%).
- 55.5% of staff felt their organisation acts fairly with regard to career progression or promotion, regardless of ethnic background, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or age. This represents a slight decline compared with 2020 (56.1%) and is now three percentage points lower than in 2017 (58.6%).
- 62.0% of staff feel safe to speak up about anything that concerns them in their organisation. This question was first asked in 2020 and has declined by more than three percentage points this year (2020: 65.6%).
- 74.9% would feel secure raising concerns about unsafe clinical practice. This has continued to improve, up by two percentage points since 2020 (72.5%) and now almost five points higher than in 2017 (70.2%).
- 59.4% were confident that their organisation would address their concern. Nationally this has dropped below 2019 (59.8%) and 2020 (60.4%) levels.
- 27.2% of staff said there are enough staff at their organisation for them to do their job properly. This declined over 11 percentage points since last year (2020: 38.4%) and by over 16 percentage points amongst staff at Ambulance trusts (2020: 36.7%, 2021: 20.3%).
NHS Staff Survey Results 2021 (30 March 2022)
https://www.nhsstaffsurveys.com/results/national-results/
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