Providing free tea and coffee costs about £10 a person each year. It is the cheapest thing you can do to make a difference to someone’s working day (or night). The free parking, food and food subsidies we provide costs more, but it all costs less than failing to retain staff #NHS
@KateBurkeNHS I think we would all prefer to have free spoons. Coffee and tea and veryindividual, but there were never enough spoons to go round.
@KateBurkeNHS I've been in the NHS over 20 years and don't know anyone who left the NHS because they had to buy their own coffee. I'd rather not get free coffee if it's used to pacify me whilst failing to address the reasons staff are leaving.
The fact that this common sense stuff isn’t understood by most of the NHS is baffling to me. Across 1000 or so staff in nursing homes/hotels we charge a nominal £1-2 per meal per staff member (the reason we even charge this is because with it being free we found wastage of food) Yes it costs us over £1 mil per year but the retention and team members being happy and a stable team has impact on residents outcomes and satisfaction, reviews and revenue.
@KateBurkeNHS It was always a non negotiable at our GP practice. We serve free tea and coffee for everyone who works in the building. Ts the bear minimum to show you value the commitment of your staff. @HeeleyTrust count tea bags as a marker of good conversations….hard outcome measure.
@KateBurkeNHS If only these things mattered enough nationally to be implemented Enough for staff to just ‘know’ that they matter
@KateBurkeNHS We supposed to get free tea & coffee but we don't staff bring own in or we take turns to buy it, milk is provided for free
@KateBurkeNHS It just seems such an obvious and cost effective thing to do . The increase in morale would surely be significant. If only we had a minister for common sense !?
@KateBurkeNHS Subsidised travel costs to cover parking - rather than parking-specific subsidy - that way they can retain also staff who decide to walk or cycle.👍