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Press release: NHS Employers responds to NHS staff survey results09 Apr 2008
Responding to the Healthcare Commission's staff survey results, Alastair Henderson, acting director of NHS Employers, which represents trusts on workforce issues, said: "Overall, the results show that the NHS remains a good place to work. It is encouraging that key measures of being a good employer, such as job satisfaction, training and development, work-life balance and health at work, have improved again this year. Patients will be pleased to see the significant improvement in responsiveness to healthcare acquired infections. "At the same time it is clear that we need to do more in areas such as bullying and harassment and violence. Building on our recent campaign to help trusts tackle bullying at work, we will work with the NHS trade unions to understand more clearly why some trusts perform better than others in this area and to share the knowledge of the best. "We also need to help trusts show their staff feel that they are valued by involving them more closely in decisions about their teams and their organisations. "NHS trusts will also be looking at their own results with a view to identifying the issues that they need to address at local level. Working with the trade unions we will be looking at what we can do to help them."
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