Summary
This report is for everyone with an interest in our health care services, and who cares about the staff who form its bedrock: domestic staff, porters, administrators, doctors, nurses, midwives, health support workers, allied health professionals; managers, and all the other people who support them to deliver the best possible care for patients, their carers and families.
Content
The Improvement Academy interviewed 60 healthcare staff across a variety of healthcare settings between November 2019 and August 2021. This revealed five key messages about the extent of strain staff have been under since before the Covid-19 pandemic, but that has been magnified intensely since.
These key messages are:
- Covid brings new pressures to an already pressurised system.
- Desire and expectation to provide good care is undermined by constant worry that this is not possible.
- Reliance on team cohesion to survive
- Staff are not getting what they need in order to give their best for patients.
- Staff know how they would like managers at all levels to help them.
In this report we detail these messages and outline an intended Improvement Academy response.
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