Nursing needs its leaders to respond to FrancisWelcome to Your Health Matters
We know your top priority is to take care of your patients. But the health and wellbeing of you and your colleagues matters too.
Does your workplace champion an innovative scheme that boosts team morale and cares for staff health and wellbeing?
Become a NHSE Healthy Staff Champion
NHS Employers are looking for acute or primary care workplaces that use innovative schemes to boost the health and wellbeing of their staff.
It might be a staff competition to take the stairs or a new lunchtime yoga class, whatever it is - we want to know about it.
- Apply to be an NHS Employers Healthy Staff Champion today
- Stuck for healthy staff champion ideas? Let us help
July health focus: fitness
Exercise more and 'live longer'
“15-minute of daily exercise is the ‘bare minimum for health’,” reported BBC News.
June Health focus: Sleep
Sleep expert: top tips for night shift workers
We talk to sleep expert, Derk-Jan Dijk from Surrey University Sleep Centre, about how best to fit in down-time when working the night shift
May Health Focus: healthy eating
5 ways your team can eat healthier at work
As a busy nursing team, you might think there aren’t enough hours in the day to worry about your diet as well as everything else. But a few simple changes could improve everyone’s health, making your group happier and more productive
April Health Focus: back care
Top 10 back care tips
Top 10 tips for a healthy back, including lifting advice, how to sit properly and back-strengthening exercises.
