How can the NHS become a millennial friendly employer?

What are the main reasons for low morale and low retention?

Nishma Manek (NM): Most junior doctors don’t feel particularly valued in their jobs. The NHS doesn’t do the “H” in “HR” very well. I don’t think it necessarily comes down to immense [financial] cost, it comes down to behaviours. You’ve sort of lost the “firm” structure, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still create that feeling if you try hard enough.

Claire Lemer (CL): It’s all about creating that sense of team because that’s crucial to managing adversity. One of the crucial things is having really honest open conversations with trainees about what the job as a consultant actually involves: showing people, getting them to shadow you, spending time with you, but also listening to them, finding out what they do outside of medicine and what their hopes and aspirations are.

Clifford Mann (CM): One of the key problems is the mismatch between the workload and the resource to attend to that workload. In the places where the mismatches are greatest fatigue, burnout, and a sense of hopelessness set in.

Bob Klaber (BK): I …