Staff at Liverpool's biggest NHS organisation sent a grim message to senior leaders - who issued an apology over their "deeply unsatisfactory" experiences.
Only 48% of employees at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT), which runs the Royal Liverpool, Aintree and Broadgreen hospitals, said they would recommend their organisation as a place to work in the 2021 annual NHS Staff Survey. That is a drop of 15.8% on the 2020 survey results.
The results to that question put the trust among the worst in its benchmarking group, a list of other trusts of a similar size and workforce to LUHFT, and the worst performer in the North West. Other dire results included only 67% of staff saying they agreed with the statement "care of patients is my organisation's top priority", down from 78% in 2020.
