
Self-reported rates of feelings of depression have increased from 40% last year Members of the psychological therapies workforce who participated in the study. Staff well-being under the current standard contract by 2017.Īn annual survey of well-being Reference Rao, Bhutani, Dosanjh, Clarke, Hacker Hughes and Easton11 has found that self-reported depression is increasing among the 1106 Mental Health Taskforce recommended that NHS England should incentivise NHS 10 It is not at all surprising, therefore, that the recent independent Sickness absence Reference Black9 but these factors can also be translated directly into financial savingsįor Trust Boards. There are measurable effects on such factors as employee retention and staff


Well-being of their employees first perform much better than those who do not. Why not? We know all too well that organisations which put the health and Reference Appleby8 And yet well over two-thirds of NHS trusts have no plans or policies in Reference Chew-Graham, Rogers and Yassin5– Reference Boorman7 As Professor Lewis Appleby so rightly said, ‘Doctors who are ill need toīe treated, not punished’. Stigma, together with shame, anxieties about confidentiality and a fear of the Suicide are among the highest of all occupational groups in England and Wales,īut why is it that we do not seek help? The answer is, almost invariably, It is a tragically well-known fact that healthcare professionals' rates of Stevens himself said last year, ‘Staff wellbeing is no longer a “nice to have”, Indeed, as NHS England Chief Executive Simon

3 Staff well-being should surely now be an imperative, and we are no Sickness absence rates are significantly higher than in other fields. 2 For those of us who work, or who have worked, in mental health services, Nearly 16 000 000 staff days were lost on account of staff sickness. There are now a large number of reports that are showing how workers in the NHSĪre expected to work to tighter and tighter performance targets Reference Felstead, Gallie, Green and Inanc1 and this is now having a knock-on effect.
