How do NHS Trusts build an engaged, flexible workforce that can adapt to fast-moving challenges? Shannon Dudley will present on how Acacium Group delivers affordable collaborative staffing models on local, regional, national international levels by breaking down the outdated barriers between bank, agency, perm and international siloes.

Six iterations of the WRES data have failed to change some of the fundamental disparities that beset the service. Changing this requires working across the complexity of multiple contributors to the problem, at the trust and system levels. Using modified metrics, reflective of the individual staff experience is key. The intersection of ethnicity and gender is key here. Setting ambitions from the data, and signposting evidence-based interventions that target action is key. Learning from sites which are exemplars is another focus for the national team, as is monitoring and comparing outcomes across regions and around the country as a whole. The presentation will focus on how institutional discrimination could be targeted in a meaningful way.

** 5 Minute Q&A included **

Piota is a leading provider of Healthcare communication apps to the NHS.  Our information apps can help improve staff communication, engagement and also increase efficiency when used in clinical settings. The Piota app platform is also be using by clinicians to help improve patient communications.

During this presentation we’ll demonstrate a selection of workforce apps currently being used by our NHS clients.

People tend not to leave a job; they leave bad bosses, unkind colleagues and toxic organisations. People tend to prefer kinder managers and more annual leave over higher salaries. Incivility in the healthcare workplace costs lives, both patients and staff.

What’s my point? I believe the key to the NHS workforce recruitment and retention crisis is an intentional effort for leaders and colleagues to simply be kinder to each other and lead with compassion.

A lot of us don’t know this. I’m on a mission to enlighten people.

Case Study - CMP

Richard and Adrian will review the key outputs from the CMP/HPMA research launched in July, with a particular focus on one of the key themes, dubbed the line manager challenge.

With the NHS waiting list in England increasing to 6.73m and record number of year-long delays, tackling the challenges facing our NHS needs radical thinking and multiple solutions. But there’s one already available that we’re not using to anywhere near its full potential – volunteers.

 Mark will discuss:

• The importance of volunteers within the health service and the value volunteers bring for staff, patients, and wider communities
• The importance of schemes such as the Volunteer to Career scheme, which encourages Trusts/community organisations to create a pathway for volunteers into professional roles, as a means to increasing the NHS workforce.
• The role that volunteers must play in the NHS’ winter crisis and long-term sustainable future