SPS Health Research

The news that nurses are overworked should not come as a surprise to anyone in the UK. Reports of growing vacancies and nursing strikes have been regular for years, so SPS and the RCNi (Royal College of Nursing’s Information and Learning subsidiary) decided to investigate the root cause for nurses’ dissatisfaction.

Between us we ran a survey of 2,800 nurses, asking a range of questions about workloads, job satisfaction and whether respondents saw a future in nursing – our findings were stark. We discovered that 42% of nurses spend more than half their working week on non-clinical admin, 45% cited workload or admin specifically as their biggest reason for wanting to leave the profession, and the cost of leaving admin across the NHS to nurses reaches an estimated £13 billion.

Engage the specialist SPS healthcare consultancy team for an on-site assessment of your admin processes, a detailed business case and a roadmap to delivery.  

Our team will run a ten-week deep dive project, producing a report to share with trust directors summarising the key areas for improvement and outline business case (OBC). Rather than relying on short-term fixes that compromise patient care, we can show you the path to achieving admin transformation yourself, delivering a sustainable model which improves patient care.  

Learn more about SPS cost improvement assessments in our brochure.