NHS Archives - Empactis

COVID-19 ethical guidelines from medical professional bodies ensure consensus to place fairness at the core for patients

Posted on 1st April 2020 by Empactis

The Royal College of Physicians, backed by an array of prestigious medical professional associations, has today published new guidelines around the Ethical dimensions of COVID-19 for front-line staff. Dr Steve Boorman was one of many authoritative contributors, participating in his role as Chair of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine’s Ethics Committee, alongside experts from the Royal […]

Empactis launches guide to help local NHS organisations “Make it happen” around Workforce Health & Wellbeing

Posted on 26th February 2020 by Empactis

New guide aims to help NHS Trusts take action around workforce health and maximise a powerful range of available resources Empactis is delighted to announce the launch of a new guide entitled “Improving NHS Workforce Health – Making it Happen” The new 20-page guide has received support from many senior NHS individuals and organisations, and […]

Nursing Celebration at the Maudsley – a day to reflect on NHS staff wellbeing

Posted on 15th November 2019 by Dr Steve Boorman

Anyone with access to my diary would see that I enjoy speaking regularly at a diverse range of conferences. I find reaching different audiences rewarding and, whilst the topics are often overlapping, I maintain a discipline of refreshing material to try and keep the messages engaging. I had accepted an invitation to speak at an […]

Supporting Nurses’ Mental Health – opening doors to improvement

Posted on 23rd September 2019 by Dr Steve Boorman

“Opening Doors – addressing the mental health of nurses and their patients” was the ambitious target of a webinar by C3 Collaborating for Health in which I participated this month. C3 is an inspiring charity that I have written about before, which campaigns to raise awareness of causes of early death, disability and illness. The webinar event was […]

Relating NHS sickness absence rates to attendance data is a tough challenge

Posted on 28th July 2019 by Dr Steve Boorman

I am always pleased to see that NHS Digital continuing to publish data openly on sickness absence rates across the NHS. The latest quarter’s data to the end of March 2019 has just been released. It is also excellent to see the narrative refers to the work my team did in reviewing NHS staff health […]

Nurses health in the spotlight – new film encourages nurses towards healthier lifestyles

Posted on 21st June 2019 by Dr Steve Boorman

As a long-standing supporter and admirer of the C3 Collaborating for Health charity, I readily accepted an invitation this week to attend the launch of a new film dedicated to improving nurses’ health and helping them achieve healthier lifestyles. C3 campaigns tirelessly to reduce the global burden of disease that occurs due to adverse lifestyle […]

Employee Engagement in the NHS

Posted on 1st November 2018 by Dr Steve Boorman

I was interested and pleased to see Rand Europe’s published research analysing data from NHS Healthy Workforce and Britain’s Healthiest Workplace surveys to understand employee engagement in the NHS. Rand is a respected and experienced organisation which has done much work over the years to help support understanding of NHS staff health and was one […]

Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham inspired audiences at the recent NHS Providers Conference

Posted on 15th October 2018 by Dr Steve Boorman

Manchester’s Central Convention Centre hosted the Annual NHS Providers conference recently. Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester gave a powerful speech describing the transformation in health and social care being aspired to in the Greater Manchester model. I remember Andy as the Health Secretary I delivered the 2009 Independent review of NHS staff health […]

Launch of the NHS Workforce Health & Wellbeing Framework

Posted on 23rd May 2018 by Dr Steve Boorman

I am delighted to see the launch of the NHS Workforce Health & Wellbeing Framework, which NHS Employers are now promoting and NHS Improvement will use in key programmes going forward. The Framework will be useful reference for non- NHS Employers as well, it represents over two years of work by a group of experts […]

It is that time of year again….

Posted on 3rd October 2017 by Empactis

It may sound early to start writing about winter flu, but it’s as early as October that the seasonal flu peak can start and most employer driven vaccination campaigns take place in Autumn. For those with medical conditions such as heart or respiratory disease, those who are pregnant or over the age of 65 and […]