NHS: Flexible Working

(asked on 20th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing flexible working conditions to improve NHS staff retention.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 25th January 2022

The 2020 NHS People Plan aims to retain people more effectively by strengthening support for flexible working within organisations. All National Health Service staff in the future can have the chance to work flexibly, regardless of role, grade, reason or circumstance.

From September 2021, contractual changes took effect for employees covered by the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook to have the right to request flexible working one without the need to provide a justification. NHS employers are expected to promote flexibility options at the point of recruitment and should cover flexible working in standard induction conversations for new starters and in one-to-ones, health and wellbeing conversations and annual appraisals as appropriate.

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