Isle of Wight Ambulance Service staff among the happiest in country

THE latest NHS staff survey results show that people working at Isle of Wight NHS Trust are seeing improvements to their work life.

Among the positives were the quality of care, safety culture and the health and wellbeing support on offer to staff, plus improvements to morale and staff engagement.

More people are recommending the trust as a place to work and there was an increase in the number of staff happy with the standard of care provided.

The Ambulance Service recorded some of the best results in the country, scoring highest in its category for eight out of ten key themes.

Overall, the trust has seen improvements across its workforce in six key areas — quality of care, safety culture, safe environment - bullying and harassment, health and wellbeing, staff engagement and morale.

However, the survey highlighted several areas for improvement, including how the trust involves staff in decision-making, how teams discuss their effectiveness and people’s experience of violence in the workplace.