The case for employee engagement in the NHS

These case studies were compiled as part of a project undertaken by The Point of Care Foundation, The Work Foundation and RAND Europe, funded by the Health Foundation. The wider project sought to learn more about employee engagement in the NHS. The purpose of the case studies was to provide an in-depth review of employee engagement in practice. We selected three trusts with the aim of exploring how employee engagement is defined; what employee engagement initiatives are currently in place; resources allocated to these initiatives; the rationale behind their implementation; how engagement is measured and the effectiveness of work done to promote it in relation to staff, patient and organisational outcomes.