Organisations that have higher workloads and lean workforces erode wellbeing.
A spokesperson for NHS Employers said: "The biggest annual survey of NHS staff showed managers are doing more to support workforce health and wellbeing.
NHS Employers is also creating resources that will enable managers and human resources staff to have conversations with the workforce about their mental wellbeing.
62 Following a commitment to extend Improving Access to Psychological Therapies to meet the needs of patients with long term conditions, this roll out involves the COINCIDE team training the psychological wellbeing practitioner workforce to work collaboratively in primary care to deliver low intensity psychological treatments to patients with a wide range of long term conditions.
We expect them to do all they can to reduce, and where possible eliminate the risks to the health and wellbeing of their workforce".
It may sound a bit science fiction right now, but when you think about it as an employer, the health and wellbeing of your workforce during the working day is going to impact upon your bottom line", says Symes.
Can or should more be done, whether by employee or employer, to protect and nurture the health and wellbeing of the workforce that keeps the rest of society well?
AstraZeneca, which runs various programmes to increase the wellbeing of its workforce, reckons it saves £210,000 ($380,000) annually in lower insurance premiums.The advantages of having happy and productive workers are likely to push other companies the same way.
The goal is to build a company which has no motives other than to provide for the care and wellbeing of the workforce of the three companies, and that will be "free from profit-making incentives and constraints," per the Wall Street Journal.
"I think that the most powerful way to attain health and wellbeing in the workforce is to have bosses, including CEOs and managers, model work-life balance initiatives themselves.
12.25pm BST Claire Burke writes NHS Employers and Professor Dame Carol Black, expert adviser on work and health at the Department of Health, have organised an NHS Health and Wellbeing Summit which takes place tomorrow.The chief executives of the new NHS system will meet to demonstrate their commitment to the health and wellbeing of the NHS workforce.
