Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest NHS provider to sign a pledge to support the principles of Nursing time Covid-19: Are you okay? campaign.
The trust signed up to support the campaign, after its chief nurse, Sam Foster, responded to the call of Nursing time for NHS providers across the UK.
“The response of our teams during this particularly difficult time has been extraordinary”
Sam Foster
Oxford University Hospital, one of the NHS’s largest teaching trusts, employs more than 14,000 staff, including 4,378 nurses and midwives, and 1,521 healthcare assistants and support staff clinical.
It operates four hospitals – John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopedic Centre, all in Oxford, and Horton General Hospital in Banbury, north Oxfordshire.
The trust, which became a trust on October 1, 2015, is also working to achieve Magnet status, a program of global recognition of high quality standards for nursing and midwifery.
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Program goals include meeting the workforce’s immediate need for rest and recovery, enhanced support, and building a more flexible and autonomous working life.
As part of it, the trust said it expected each of its employees to have a ‘health check’ and at least one follow-up meeting with their line manager or an individual. another person nominated in March 2022.
It has also created an online guide to health and wellness, focusing on six areas – emotional and psychological, environmental, financial, occupational and intellectual, physical and social.
Nursing time launching Covid-19: Are You OK? campaign in April 2020 to raise awareness for the first time about the mental health pressures and wellbeing needs of nurses during and after the coronavirus pandemic.
We’re now in the second phase of the campaign, which involves actively asking employers from the healthcare and wellness sectors to support the campaign’s goals.
“As we move into the future, ensuring the well-being of our employees is an absolute priority for our trust.”
Sam Foster
We therefore look forward to reaching out to the majority of NHS acute, specialist, community and psychiatric mental health providers, as well as independents, in the coming weeks to discuss see if they signed the campaign pledge.
By signing up to support the campaign, employers commit to providing easily accessible formal welfare and mental health support to employees in times of need.
They also agreed to promote a culture of mutual support, in which employees are wary of the possibility that co-workers may have problems due to their work during a pandemic.
Additionally, they are committed to making sure employees experiencing problems know they will receive positive, supportive feedback by disclosing them and that it won’t be seen as a sign of weakness.
Thank you to Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for being the latest NHS provider to register for Covid-19: Are You OK? campaign commitment.
Sam Foster, director of nursing at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “The response of our teams during this particularly difficult time has been extraordinary.
“As we grow into the future, ensuring the well-being of our employees is an absolute priority for our trust and we will always do our best to take care of them, so they can continue provide the best possible care to our patients.”
In October 2020, specialist healthcare provider, Clatterbridge Cancer Center NHS Foundation Trust, became the first UK employer to sign a pledge to support the Covid-19 campaign principles- 19: Are You OK.
One Nursing time A survey of 3,500 nurses conducted for the campaign’s launch found that 33% of respondents rated their mental health and overall health as “bad” or “very bad” and 50% described themselves “much more anxious or stressed” since the pandemic.
Sam Foster
The mental health of clinicians in times of pandemic has also been the subject of reports and surveys involving the King’s Fund, the Laura Hyde Foundation, the British Medical Association and others.
Meanwhile, findings from research are increasingly being published about staff lack of support during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
The most recent are findings related to a study by University College London, which explored what psychological support is available to health and care workers during the first peak, as well as what is needed. after that.
