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May 2022

Latest Freedom to Speak Up news and updates from the National Guardian’s Office
Welcome from Jayne


Dr Jayne Chidgey-Clark


This month, International Nurses Day coincided with Mental Health Awareness Week.  

In my latest blog, I am reflecting on why speaking up needn’t be lonely and share my speaking up experience as a nurse.
 

I also talk about how being supported when we speak up is important for our mental health and the important role leaders have in ensuring workers feel psychologically safe to speak up.   
Read Jayne's latest blog

A call to action: Supporting leaders at all levels to embrace Freedom to Speak up

Today, Dr Jayne Chidgey-Clark gives a call to action in HSJ: Supporting leaders at all levels to embrace Freedom to Speak Up. 

“Freedom to Speak Up requires leadership commitment throughout the health and care system,” writes Dr Jayne Chidgey-Clark in today’s Health Service Journal. “In this way, we can foster the speak up, listen up, follow up culture, which will give workers, and ultimately those who use our services, the health and care sector they deserve.”

She encourages all senior leaders to under take training to understand their role in forster a good speaking up culture that promotes organisational learning and improvement. 

Read the HSJ article

HSJ Award Submissions: Closing soon

Showcase your great work in making speaking up business as usual by entering the HSJ Freedom to Speak Up Award - submissions for the 2022 HSJ Awards will be closing on Friday 27 May. 

The judging panel will be looking for entries which showcase how the culture of the organisation supports workers to speak up and how the leadership of the organisation has embraced the opportunity to improve.  

Any organisation in the healthcare sector that can demonstrate improvement in their speaking up culture and behaviours is welcome to enter. We welcome entries from providers and trusts, regulators and national bodies, private hospital providers, care homes, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), GP practices, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists and charities.
Read the critera
Apply for the Freedom to Speak Up Award

Freedom to Speak Up Elearning available for all

Last month, the National Guardian’s Office launched ‘Follow Up’ training to support leaders to improve the speaking up culture of their organisations.  

The Freedom to Speak Up training - ‘Speak Up, Listen Up, Follow Up’ - is freely available for everyone who works in healthcare. Divided into three modules, it and enhances worker experience.

The latest session - Follow Up – completes the package. Developed for senior leaders throughout healthcare - including executive and non-executive directors, lay members and governors – this module aims to promote a consistent and effective Freedom to Speak Up culture across the system which enables workers to speak up and be confident they will be listened to and action taken.
 
Access the training here

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