Staff engagement: six building blocks for harnessing the creativity and enthusiasm of NHS staff

Staff engagement: six building blocks for harnessing the creativity and enthusiasm of NHS staff There is now an overwhelming body of evidence to show that engaged staff deliver better health care. Trusts with more engaged staff tend to have lower levels of patient mortality, make better use of resources, and have stronger financial performance and higher patient satisfaction, with more patients reporting that they were treated with dignity and respect. This paper encourages boards and other leaders to focus on staff engagement and suggests a number of questions boards can ask to assess their organisation’s level of staff engagement. The King's Fund