Flexible working
The following case studies illustrate examples of flexible working as part of the Improving Working Lives (IWL) Standard, from the development of a charter highlighting the rights and responsibilities of staff, to a radical transformation of local emergency care provision.
Staff survey
NHS Employers provides a range of guidance and support to help organisations develop local action plans in response to the staff survey. This page includes examples of activity that trusts have successfully implemented to tackle the key action areas identified by the Healthcare Commission.
Stress
NHS Employers is supporting employers to tackle workplace stress in their organisations. This section of the knowledge base includes examples of what trusts are doing to reduce workplace stress.
Workplace back problems
This section of the knowledge base includes examples of how trusts are tackling musculoskeletal injury and work-related back problems.
Improving working lives
NHS Employers is committed to helping NHS employers improve the working lives of their staff. We have set up this area - the knowledge base - for NHS organisations to share examples of good practice and learn from each other.
Reducing sickness absence
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust worked in partnership with West Sussex Primary Care Trust (PCT) put in place an occupational health physiotherapy service to reduce the level of musculoskeletal related sickness absence amongst the workforce.
