Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Quality Account 2016-2017
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Quality account 2016-2017
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Quality account 2016-2017
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There have been improvements across all areas when you compare the <strong>Trust</strong> to the others as<br />
follows:<br />
Lowest Below Average Above Top 20%<br />
(worst) 20% average<br />
average<br />
2015 9 15 5 2 1<br />
<strong>2016</strong> 2 8 14 4 4<br />
Percentage<br />
Improvement<br />
78% 47% 180% 100% 300%<br />
Overall we have been recognised as being in the top 5 most improved acute <strong>Trust</strong>s in the country.<br />
The key areas for improvement, based on our rankings against other acute trusts include:<br />
Flexible working opportunities<br />
Staff experiencing harassment, bullying or abuse from other staff or patients/relatives/public<br />
Staff reporting most recent experience of harassment, bullying or abuse<br />
Physical violence from patients/relatives/public<br />
Equal opportunities for career progression<br />
Witnessing potentially harmful errors/near misses/incidents<br />
Confidence and security in reporting unsafe clinical practice<br />
Staff feeling unwell due to work related stress<br />
Organisation and management interest in and action on health and wellbeing.<br />
We recognise that overall the survey shows a lot of improvement. However, given the results on<br />
bullying and harassment we will be focussing more effort on addressing this to support our trust<br />
value of ‘we respect and support each other’. We will approach this from two perspectives; firstly to<br />
support to staff by understanding their concerns through engaging directly with staff; developing<br />
our Mental Well-Being & Resilience policy and providing resilience training as part of our Health &<br />
Well-Being strategy and secondly to send clear communications and have robust policies that<br />
make it clear that any form of bullying or harassment is unacceptable and will be dealt with.<br />
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