National survey of NHS staff 2005

Between October and December 2005, over 209,000 staff in 570 NHS trusts and 25 strategic health authorities in England took part in the third national survey of NHS staff.

To read the key findings from results of the national survey, and to find out how staff in your local trust or strategic health authority responded, please click the links below.

Key findings

Published March 22nd 2006:

Summary of key findings (pdf 642kb) (opens new window)

Occupational summary Q1-8 worklife balance (xls 195kb) (opens new window)

Occupational summary Q9-14 appraisal training (xls 202kb) (opens new window)

Occupational summary Q15-24 your job and organisation (xls 285kb) (opens new window)

Occupational summary Q25-34 errors, violence, bullying and harassment (xls 209kb) (opens new window)

Occupational summary key scores (xls 142kb) (opens new window)

Press release - March 22nd 2006: Fewer NHS workers report violence and abuse from patients and relatives - NHS staff survey

Trust and strategic health authority results:

Feedback and summary reports

To download benchmarked feedback reports and summary reports for each individual trust and participating strategic health authority, please click on one of the links below. The organisations are listed by type and in alphabetical order.

Published March 22nd 2006:

A-Z list of acute trusts

A-Z list of mental health and learning disability trusts

A-Z list of primary care trusts

A-Z list of primary care with mental health trusts

A-Z list of care trusts

A-Z list of ambulance trusts

A-Z list of Strategic Health Authorities

Making sense of your survey of staff data

Details of the ‘key scores’ (defined as the 28 scores derived from the survey identified as covering the issues that are most important to trusts) presented in the feedback and summary reports are available at the link below. There is also information about differences in results from previous years, the confidence intervals, and the procedures used to ‘weight’ results. Further information on the detailed spreadsheets is also provided here, as well as details of how the survey if staff results feed into: Improving Working Lives assessments; the Health and Safety Executive audit requirements; and the core standards within the Healthcare Commission’s new annual health check system for 2005/2006.

Making sense of your staff survey data (pdf 120kb) (opens new window)

Detailed spreadsheets

The aggregated responses to all individual survey questions can be accessed here. The spreadsheets display results for every trust and participating strategic health authority in England, as well as national averages for different trust types. A set of spreadsheets containing results for the optional questions will be published here.

Please note the results provided here may vary from those given in the feedback and summary reports, as the data here is ‘unweighted’ (see Making use of your staff survey data above for further information). The spreadsheets do not allow for accurate comparisons to be made across different types of NHS organisation as the weighting has not been applied to the actual figures.

Q1 - Q8 Work life balance (xls 2643kb) (opens new window)

Q9 - Q14 Appraisal, training, leaning and development (xls 2617kb) (opens new window)

Q15 - Q20 Your job (xls 3396kb) (opens new window)

Q21 - Q24 Management supervision and your organisation (xls 1792kb) (opens new window)

Q25 - Q28 Errors, near misses and incidents (xls 1475kb) (opens new window)

Q29 - Q34 Harassment, bullying, violence and infection control/hygiene (xls 1875kb) (opens new window)

Q35 - Q40 Background questions (xls 1386kb) (opens new window)

Key scores (xls 1156kb) (opens new window)

Due to the size of the files, the spreadsheets are also available as zip files which can be downloaded from the links below:

Q1 - Q8 Work life balance (zip 1273kb)

Q9 - Q14 Appraisal training and teams (zip 1239kb)

Q15 - Q20 Your job (zip 1644kb)