The latest NHS Staff Survey results show that the Isle of Wight NHS Trust has seen many positive areas of improvement over the past 12 months.
Highlights from this year’s survey indicate that people who work at the Trust feel part of a team and that it is increasingly becoming a more compassionate and inclusive employer that recognises and rewards its staff.
The Trust has also been recognised as a safer and healthier place to work as well as demonstrating improvements in opportunities to access the right learning and development.
The Isle of Wight Ambulance Service continues to set the benchmark nationally by achieving the highest scores in the country across eight of the 9 key themes of the survey, and this year the Mental Health service also achieved the highest score nationally in the area of learning and development.
Darren Cattell, Chief Executive at the Isle of Wight NHS Trust, has said:
“These results highlight the progress we are making as we strive to be a great place to work, which in turn has a positive impact on the care and services we provide to our Island community. We are at, or above average, in 6 of the 9 key themes of the survey.
“We always listen carefully to the feedback and our focus is firmly on where we can make a positive impact. We will continue our investment into building on the positives as well as shaping our future plans to improve things for our people and enable us to continue to deliver high quality services and compassionate care.
“We know that all of our people come to work to provide the best possible care and the significant investments we are making into recruiting more clinical staff, improving our infrastructure and new digital systems, as well as our acute partnership with Portsmouth and our Community and Mental Health and Learning Disability partnership across the whole of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, will enable them to do this in the right environment with the right support and tools.
Article continues below this advertisement “The support of our community is also invaluable and this has continued throughout what has been a very challenging year as demand on our services and people continues to increase. I would like to thank everyone who continues to work hard to make the Trust a supportive, inclusive and compassionate environment.”
Across the NHS, response rates to this year’s survey were lower than last year but despite all the challenges of the pandemic, operational pressure and COVID-19 recovery, there was strong response rate with over half of the Trust’s staff (57%) taking the time to share their feedback. As expected, along with the rest of the NHS, the results indicate that it’s been another tough year with issues related to pay and pressure of work high on the agenda.
Heaven forbid they ever undertook a survey of what the patients and families think without using loaded questions.
They all look really happy,which is good,I have been up ST Marys several times in last few months for myself and family members and they are brilliant as are the paramedics,should all be on lot more money and people that assault them should get proper sentences
Well done I.O.W NHS !