We endeavour to always learn from and share experiences with other colleagues across the NHS, using the regional retention community of practices. Please, do contact your regional retention manager to be part of the community of practice in your region. East of England: Helen Jones – helen.jones114@nhs.net London: Charlene Pressley – charlene.pressley@nhs.net Midlands: Carol Yassein […]

Effective processes are needed to rapidly induct HCSWs into an organisation and equip them with the knowledge, skills and confidence to provide high-quality care quickly. An enhanced onboarding process may be useful to consider. It is also essential that your recruitment strategy and your onboarding, education and training processes include and communicate ways to retain […]

A good induction process can be key to ensuring healthcare support workers (HCSWs) feel welcomed into an organisation and supported in their role, especially HCSWs that are younger or are new to care. This is critical to retention, mitigating early attrition and to empowering staff to deliver high-quality care. A good induction should provide HCSWs […]

The National GP Retention Scheme is a package of financial and educational support to help doctors, who might otherwise leave the profession, remain in clinical general practice. The scheme is aimed at doctors who are seriously considering leaving or have left general practice due to personal reasons (caring responsibilities or personal illness), approaching retirement or […]

This tool enables organisations to undertake a self- assessment against the seven elements of the NHS people promise plus key elements that support staff to deliver high quality care, enhancing job satisfaction and supporting the retention of nurses and midwives. Organisations are encouraged to use the information gathered in the dashboard to develop and implement their local evidence-based retention improvement plans.

A toolkit is available to support line managers and employers and includes a template retention improvement plan.

If you have any questions about the tool, please email england.lookingafterourpeople@nhs.net

These documents provide the framework that determines how NHS England’s records should be managed and how long they are kept. We also comply with the Records Management Code of Practice for Health and Social Care.

This guidance sets out the criteria for doctors who wish to join the GP Retention Scheme.

Its intended audience includes:

• Doctors who are considering applying to join the scheme.
• Doctors who are currently designated “retained doctors”.
• Deans of Postgraduate GP Education/Heads of Primary and Community Care Education and their teams.
• GP practices employing or considering employing a retained GP under this scheme.
• NHS England local teams and ICBs with delegated co-commissioning responsibility.

Data suggests that many healthcare support workers (HCSWs) leave the NHS because their shift patterns are not conducive to a good work-life balance. The NHS People Plan, which underpins the NHS Long Term Plan, sets out a clear ambition to have more staff working differently in a compassionate and inclusive culture. As flexibility can be […]

Looking After Our People – Retention hub Our NHS is made up of more than 1.3 million people who care for the people of this country with skill, compassion and dedication. We must make the NHS an employer of excellence – valuing, supporting, developing and investing in our colleagues. Retaining and supporting our people is […]

The NHS England and NHS Improvement retention team has put together the below information to support staff retention of people in either early or late stage career. These links are intended to help support managers in retaining staff. We will continue to add further resources to this page. Flexible working information and guidance: Please find […]