The document summarizes an NHS workshop on health and wellbeing. It will include presentations from Rotherham CCG on their healthy workforce pilot program and from NHS England on the current health and wellbeing CQUIN expectations for NHS trusts. The workshop aims to discuss how employers can promote health and wellbeing among staff to improve patient safety, staff retention and experience, and reduce sickness absence costs. The benefits of a healthier workforce for both the NHS and individual trusts will also be explained.

1. NHS Health & Wellbeing workshop
Jonny Cotton, NHS England Strategy Group &
Gordon Laidlaw & Julie Wisken, NHS Rotherham CCG

2. 1.) Hear from Rotherham CCG- one of the healthy workforce pilot
organisations
2.) Learn more about the actions you can take as an employer to promote
health and wellbeing
3.) Learn about the current health and wellbeing CQUIN including the
expectations of NHS Trusts
Aims of the workshop

3. Why should we care about health and
wellbeing
Improved patient safety and experience
Improved staff retention and experience
Reduced costs through lowering the current £2.4bn cost of sickness absence to the
NHS
Reinforced public health and prevention messages
Setting an example for other industries and employers to follow
The benefits to the NHS and to individual Trusts of a healthier workforce are becoming
increasingly clear
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4. Leading By Example:
A Healthy Workforce
Gordon Laidlaw – Head of Communications
Julie Wisken – Project Officer
NHS Rotherham Clinical Commissioning Group

5. Leading By Example - A Healthy
Workforce
Culture
 Open plan (everybody) approachable senior managers
 A learning organisation
 Staff values (developed by staff and discussed at PDRs – 2 way)
 Investors In Excellence
 Staff survey - 100% participation
 Bottom up approach
 All staff meetings
 Suggestion box
 Devolving responsibility

6. Health checks
 Providing the NHS health check at work for all our staff (not just for the >40) so that
staff are able to access it more easily, and receive better signposting and support.
Helping staff get the health services they need
 Providing capacity for staff to access physiotherapy, as well as other services, e.g
smoking cessation and weight management services.
 Provided alcohol and substance misuse training to staff during all staff meeting.
 Provided smoking cessation training and information to staff during all staff
meeting.
Weight Loss Challenge
Our health and wellbeing plans included
the following (1/2)

7. Physical activity
 Worked with local authority to establish and promote a local physical activity offer
Organised walks by individuals and teams in the CCG
 Offering cycle to work schemes
Mental Health
 Providing First Aid Mental Health Training for staff
 All staff provided with mindfulness app and mindfulness training provided to staff
Workplace Wellbeing Charter
 Completed and gained Excellence Award.
 Advised the trust on their CQUIN submission plans
Our health and wellbeing plans included
the following (2/2)