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Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust receives top scores in NHS Staff Survey 2024

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Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust has been ranked as the top acute Trust in England across multiple areas of staff experience in this year’s NHS Staff Survey.  

The NHS Staff Survey is one of the largest workforce surveys in the world – collecting feedback on staff experience across a variety key metrics including inclusivity, recognition and reward, staff safety, engagement, and morale.

More than 3,700 members of staff at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust participated in this year’s NHS Staff Survey. From their feedback, Royal Berkshire received some of its highest ever scores and has been ranked as the top acute Trust in England in thirteen areas, including:

  • Taking positive action on health and wellbeing.
  • Staff being able to make improvements in their area of work.
  • Staff feeling their work is valued by the organisation.
  • Learning from and preventing errors or near misses.
  • Staff feeling that their role makes a difference to patients.

Investing in our staff is one of Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust’s key strategic aims and the results of this year’s NHS Staff Survey are the culmination of increased investment in staff experience since the Covid-19 pandemic.

Over the past several years, the Trust has opened a multi-million health and wellbeing facility for staff, built upon its reward and recognition offering, expanded transport options, provided greater leadership and development training, and provided a variety of new benefits including free health checks, out-of-hours food, in-house psychological support, staff GP service and more.

Steve McManus, Chief Executive of Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We couldn’t be prouder of the results from this year’s NHS Staff Survey. Our staff and volunteers are our greatest assets and its fantastic to see that despite a challenging environment we’ve been able to make real, measurable improvements to staff experience.

“It is brilliant to be ranked as the top acute Trust in England across so many areas, but we know there’s always more we can do. This year’s results are a fantastic foundation for us to build on and make Royal Berkshire an even more fantastic place to work for.”

Graham Sims, Chair of Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Our staff proudly serve a community of more than one million people, so it is only right and vital that we treat our staff with the same level of care and empathy they show our patients. We are so proud of this year’s NHS Staff Survey results which are the culmination of years of work and our continued investment in staff recognition, feedback, health and wellbeing.”