Flexible working and e-rostering are key to keeping more nurses in the health service, a new report by NHS England suggests. The organisation has published a new analysis of its People Promise staff retention initiative, which has seen trusts offered support to implement changes to prevent staff from quitting. Across all the trusts, leaver rates fell collectively by 11.8% more than non-exemplar trusts over the 20-month pilot – a reduction of 4,465 full-time equivalent leavers. The report found that e-rostering, supporting flexible working and flexible retirement and local listening sessions for staff had the biggest impact on improvements to leaver rates. The People Promise staff retention initiative is led by nurse Professor Em Wilkinson-Brice, director for staff experience and leadership development at NHS England.
