The officers' concerns are backed up by the data, which shows declining staff levels and an increase in assaults on staff.
Declining staff morale is now the factor of greatest concern to hospital financial directors, according to a report by the King's Fund health think-tank.
Employees said that the combination of declining staff numbers and increased expectations from both the public and their bosses was leaving them feeling the strain.
Pritchard added: "The media museum has suffered declining staff and funding cuts over recent years which has impacted on public access to the collection, despite the very best efforts of the curatorial staff".
Labour believes health will be a key electoral issue as voters start to worry less about the economy and more about the NHS as it begins to suffer from the coalition's structural shakeup, declining staff morale after years of frozen pay and a budget not increasing fast enough to cope with the ageing population.
However, some offices have experienced declining staff, potentially reducing the efficacy of consultation.
This same organization, which regularly issues statements about political issues as a major part of its advocacy strategy, also reportedly declined staff requests to release a statement condemning Trump's appointment of Steve Bannon as a White House adviser.
A longitudinal study was also carried out for hospital A analyzing yearly data over a ten year period (1996 2005), during which time there had been steadily declining staff numbers.
Decreased quality in delivery care services may be the result of increased workload or declining staff morale, particularly when the implementation of the exemption policy is not accompanied by a commensurate increase in human, material and financial resources [ 16].
Indeed, some of the policies, particularly the free care for pregnant women and young children, contributed to declining staff morale as it was introduced without engagement with frontline health workers and increased staff workloads as demand increased without corresponding increases in real resources to meet those demands [ 21, 22].
