NHS better place to work, say staff (From Swindon Advertiser)
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NHS better place to work, say staff
2:00pm Monday 22nd March 2010 in
NHS Wiltshire is a better place to work than this time last year, according to an annual survey.
Nearly two-thirds of NHS Wiltshire staff responded to the survey carried out in autumn 2009 – well above the national response rate of 55 per cent.
The responses came both from staff working in frontline health services and those at headquarters and were analysed by an independent company.
Key findings include 79 per cent of those responding to the survey saying they feel valued by their colleagues, while 82 per cent had an appraisal in previous 12 months – up from 72 per cent in previous year’s survey, and significantly higher than the national average. All reported increased satisfaction in their jobs.
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Captain Sensible
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5:53pm Mon 22 Mar 10
Marcus Cicero
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11:05pm Mon 22 Mar 10
The filthy house of death in swindon gets it higher and higher marks because it isnt inspected by anyone. IT says how good it is.
Glad the staff like working there now. Does this mean they now dont do anything as in the following story.
Remember I have recently been there and went 24hrs without a drink. You all thought it was strange.Doubted me, questioned wether I was making it up.
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Bobfm
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9:42am Tue 23 Mar 10
Rarely however is appropriate action take. The news paper article clearly shows that either due to sheer laziness or the lack of clinical expertise this 22 year old died for the want of water.
That wouldn't be tolerated in the Third World, and should never happen in a teaching hospital.
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gonefishin says...
2:48pm Mon 22 Mar 10
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Which means more than 1 in 5 employees (of the 'nearly' 2 out of 3 who expressed an opinion) don't feel valued by their colleagues.
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"while 82 per cent had an appraisal in previous 12 months"
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So almost 1 in 5 employees (of the 'nearly' 2 out of 3 who took part in the survey) did not have an annual performance appraisal.
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"All reported increased satisfaction in their jobs"
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Nearly 2 in 3 reported increased satisfaction. More than 1 in 3 did not express an opinion at all.
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"NHS better place to work, say some staff." would be a more accurate headline. As would
"More than 1 in 3 NHS staff did not take part in survey" together with some investigative journalism as to why... were they too busy, too knackered, too apathetic? Were the questions written only in English and how would that skew the results?
Perhaps the Adver could run another survey, asking why the more than 1 in 3 failed to take part in last year's engagement survey...