Real staff engagement needs real investment.
There are targets on patient safety, patient experience, value for money and staff engagement.
This links closely to the aims for the community and staff engagement programme over the coming year.
Take Provide CIC: the CQC recently praised its levels of care and staff engagement as outstanding across the board.
These steps are important, but they are not a substitute for taking a truly strategic approach to staff engagement.
They are growing impatient of seeing "staff engagement" as something that languishes on NHS to-do lists.
Davies works with CEOs, executive teams and workforces in areas such as culture change, creating happy workplaces, staff engagement, communication and presentation skills, and executive coaching.
She is the former assistant director in the charity Youth Sport Trust and now a senior consultant at auditors KPMG, focusing on inclusive leadership, culture and staff engagement.
This has been achieved through high levels of staff engagement as assessed in the annual staff survey and devolution of decision making throughout the organisation.
Some students also expressed dissatisfaction with perceived outdated technology in use in HE, and a lack of staff engagement with the institution's virtual learning environment.
He said: "The findings reinforce the need for a much greater focus on the staff experience, good people management and staff engagement... to improve the patient experience.
