Health trust which runs Sutton's King's Mill and Mansfield Community hospitals rated third best in country

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust also came out top in the Midlands in the annual NHS Staff Survey.

The survey was carried out across 128 acute/acute and community trusts nationwide and asked staff for their views about working during the year-long Covid-19 pandemic.

Survey highlights for Sherwood included:

- second best for morale among acute and acute and community trusts;

- third best for quality of care;

- third best for 'I would recommend my organisation as a place to work';

- fourth best for team work;

- best for ‘we are given feedback about changes made in response to reported errors, near misses and incidents’

Sixty one per cent of trust staff responded to the survey, one of the best response rates in the NHS and the highest in the region.

Delighted chief executive, Richard Mitchell, said he was ‘incredibly proud’ his trust’s results had improved for a fifth consecutive year – which he says is ‘good news’ for patient care.

“The findings from the survey show what a great place Sherwood is to work and that our priority of looking after each other makes a real difference,” he said.

"For us, colleague wellbeing and welfare is a true long-term priority for us and it is a golden thread that runs through everything we do.

"We do our best to make sure we always have practical solutions in place to ensure that colleagues can access the help, support and advice they need so that they can feel happy and motivated.

“Thank you to all colleagues working across our three hospitals for the commitment and determination you have shown over the last year – it is you that makes our trust what it is – one of the best acute trusts in the NHS and the best in the Midlands.

“Although these findings are extremely positive, there are, of course, areas we need to improve and the findings from this year’s survey will provide us with useful information so we can see where we need to focus next.”