Maxine & Matt #2: NHS People Promise - We Are A Team
5 Sept 2022 ● Matt Farrah, Nurses.co.uk Founder
Maxine & Matt #2: NHS People Promise - We Are A Team
Matt chats with Maxine Obeng about the NHS People Promise - 'We Are A Team'. What does it mean, and how well can it work? Expect to hear about festivals, coming together, leadership, the benefit of away days, snowy white peaks, diversity and the 'tangible chaos' that is NHS nursing.
About Maxine
Maxine is Assistant Director Perinatal Mental Health within the NHS.
She has over 10 years experience in healthcare, with a special interest in organisational transformation, change management and improving quality through workforce development.
Through her own company she helps nurses and healthcare professionals reach their career goals.
Do Gender Proportions Within Upper Management Correspond To Lower Bandings?
We talked about the proportions of male nurses versus female (11% / 89%) and what this looks like as you move up the bandings. We did some research and found this which proved Maxine right!:
"in NHS England and NHS Improvement, women occupy 55.3% of the highest paid jobs and 78.8% of the lowest paid jobs. On the other hand, men occupy 44.7% of the highest paid jobs and 21.2% of the lowest paid jobs."
and...
"In England, male nurses were proportionally higher at bands 6-8, with the biggest differences seen at 8a and 8d. Men made up 15.9% of 8a nurses, despite only forming 11.3% of the overall nurse workforce.... Scotland saw the biggest difference at band 8d, with 20.1% of male nurses at this pay band, with an overall male nurse workforce of 10.6%"
The Green Nursing Challenge 2025 is an initiative designed to inspire nurses to adopt eco-friendly practices in their daily work to help the NHS achieve its target of Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050
Last week Keir Starmer announced the end of NHS England. So we asked regular contributor, Laura Pueyo, to shine a light on the state of the NHS in 2025 from a nurse’s perspective.
