Our Skilled Workforce
Staff are highly valued at Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust and
the organisation was delighted to be recognised as one of the top 100 healthcare
employers by the Health Service Journal and Nursing Times in February 2009.
Our staff work very closely together at all levels
Staff survey
to provide high quality care for our patients and
The Foundation Trust took part in the annual Healthcare
their families. We work hard to offer a supportive
Commission NHS staff survey in autumn 2008 and was
environment for all of our 2,841 staff (2273.3
in the top 20% of acute trusts in England for six of the
whole time equivalent) and recognise their
survey’s 36 key findings including:
efforts to support our patients in so many ways.
• Percentage of staff that would recommend the
Our commitment to promoting equality
Foundation Trust as a place to work
and diversity
• Percentage of staff reporting good communication
The Foundation Trust has continued to make
between senior management and staff
significant progress during 2008/09 in its commitment
• Percentage of staff having well structured appraisals
to promote equality and diversity and has developed a
in last 12 months
strategy to bring clarity and focus to our overarching
• Percentage of staff appraised in last 12 months
equality and diversity objectives.
• Percentage of staff understanding their role
Our equality and diversity steering group is chaired by
the chief executive and attended by a mix of
• Availability of hand washing materials.
managers and clinicians. This group has continued to
Areas for improvement included the percentage of
drive the Foundation Trust’s equality and diversity
staff witnessing potentially harmful errors, near misses
progress during 2008/09.
or incidents and the percentage of staff having had
equality and diversity training in last 12 months. We
will be developing an action plan with staff, based on
a detailed analysis of the results.
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