NHSScotland Staff Survey 2015 National Report

NHSScotland Staff Survey 2015 Appendices to National Report

The NHSScotland Staff Survey 2015 was launched on 10^th August 2015 and closed at 17:00 on 23^rd September 2015. Building on the work of previous staff surveys (2006, 2008, 2010, 2013 and 2014), the survey gave all NHSScotland staff the opportunity to provide feedback on their experience of working for the organisation.

The survey was multi‐mode and gave staff the opportunity to contribute their views either on‐line, over the telephone or by postal questionnaire.

The results of the survey are intended to be used to identify areas where things are going well, but also to highlight potential areas for improvement. The findings can also be used to monitor trends over time and to assess organisational performance against the five key elements of the NHSScotland Staff Governance Standard.

Introduction

The Appendices Report accompanies the National Report, and is designed to assist readers in understanding and interpreting the survey results.

This report contains a number of appendices which provide further supporting information to help you to make sense of the survey results, the appendices are:

Appendix A: describes the types of questions included in the survey, the way the results were calculated and important points and caveats the reader should be aware of when using and interpreting the findings.

Appendix B: comprises a series of tables showing the percentage of positive and the percentage of negative responses received for each question, in 2015 and 2014. The column on the right of the table uses a colour coding system to show whether the differences between the positive responses in 2014 and 2015 were statistically significant improvements (green), statistically significant deteriorations (red) or not statistically different from each other (grey).

Appendix C: comprises of a series of tables showing the percentage of positive responses received for each question, by each NHS Board in NHSScotland. For ease of reading, Boards have been grouped into three categories: Mainland Boards, Island Boards and National Bodies / Special Boards.

Appendix D: comprises of a series of tables showing the percentage of positive responses received for each question, by each staff group within NHSScotland. In order to preserve anonymity results for sub‐groups comprising fewer than ten respondents are not shown (the total number of responses is shown as <10 and the results column is left blank). Responses from these staff groups have been included in the overall results.

Appendix E: comprises of a series of tables showing the percentage of positive responses received for each question, by employment and socio‐demographic characteristics of the staff in NHSScotland. Groups include Working Pattern, Length of Service, Age, Caring Responsibilities, Disability, Ethnicity, Gender and Gender Reassignment, Religious Beliefs and Sexuality.

Appendix F: A table for comparing the percentage of positive responses for each question in 2015 with the corresponding results in each of the previous staff surveys.