title: Mixed messages.
abstract: Every year, the NHS in England conducts what is almost certainly the biggest regular staff survey in health care anywhere in the world. The 2016 NHS staff survey involved 316 NHS organisations, with 982,000 NHS staff invited to participate. Returns from more than 423,000 staff equated to a response rate of 44%. The findings were published earlier this month, and as ever with such surveys, some messages instantly emerged.
authors.affiliation: Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Buchan
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D013222:State Medicine; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom