NHS Employers

NHS Employers
Formation2004
Chief Executive
Ben Morrin
Websitewww.nhsemployers.org

NHS Employers are the employers’ organisation for the NHS in England and Wales. They support workforce leaders and represent employers and systems to develop a sustainable workforce and be the best employers they can be.

They also manage the relationships with NHS trade unions on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

NHS Employers was formed in 2004 and is part of The NHS Alliance (previously the NHS Confederation).

History

In January 2004 the Department of Health announced the responsibility for negotiating staff terms and conditions was to be devolved by them to the NHS Confederation.[1] In November 2004 NHS Employers was formed,[2] and became the body that negotiates healthcare staff contracts on behalf of the government.[3] They regularly collect and analyse the views of employers.[4]

In September 2014, Danny Mortimer was appointed Chief Executive of NHS Employers, succeeding Dean Royles. [5] After 11 years as chief executive, Danny Mortimer left NHS Employers to become the director general for people, working across the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England. Dean Royles returned as interim chief executive in January 2026 before Ben Morrin was appointed permanent chief executive in July 2026.

Initiatives

In 2005, most NHS trusts estimated that around half of their staff were suffering from workplace stress, but less than a third of health service managers that responded were able to say that their trusts had a stress management policy at the time.[6]

In 2012 they launched a Speaking Up Charter, asking NHS trusts to commit to actions that would help staff to raise concerns.[7]

In June 2014 they published statistics highlighting the proportion of women in various sections of the NHS workforce.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "NHS to take over staff pay negotiations". Public Finance. 8 January 2004. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Mulholland, Hélène (9 November 2004). "'Poison chalice' warning to NHS pay body". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "Health secretary to meet doctors over contract row". BBC News. 28 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "About us". NHS Employers. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  5. ↑ Hickman, Arvind (12 September 2014). "Mortimer named NHS Employers CEO". HR Magazine. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "NHS staff stress rife, bosses say". BBC News. 2 November 2005.
  7. ↑ Triggle, Nick (11 February 2015). "NHS 'to get whistleblower guardians'". BBC News.
  8. ↑ Turnbull, Alex (2 June 2014). "NHS Employers publishes gender statistics". Independent Nurse. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
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