Category

• Emerging Local Practice

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Poverty impact

• Mitigation

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Poverty driver

• Provide benefit in-kind (material)
• Non-driver - improving quality of life

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Keywords

• One-off grant
• Onward referral
• Acute secondary care staff
• In-work poverty
• NHS

Aim

To provide immediate financial aid and targeted guidance, support and advice to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) acute secondary care staff.

Summary

The NHSGGC Staff Crisis Support Fund is a multi-partner agency staff health improvement pilot project. The programme offers targeted poverty mitigation support, advice, and guidance to NHS secondary care staff within NHSGGC health board boundaries.

What difference does it make?

The project seeks to mitigate both the long- and short-term negative impacts of the current cost-of-living crisis on those NHSGGC secondary care staff experiencing in-work poverty.

The project adopts a holistic approach to meeting the wellbeing needs of both NHSGGC secondary care staff and patients. It contributes to maintaining secondary care staffing levels by mitigating identified barriers to work attendance.

Organisations

NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Location

Greater Glasgow and Clyde (Queen Elizabeth University Hospital & Royal Hospital for Children. Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Victoria Hospital. Stobhill Hospital. Royal Alexandra Hospital)

Key take-aways

• In work poverty is prevalent amongst NHSGGC secondary care staff.
• The crisis grant is a one-off short-term solution. Appropriate referrals are put in place to mitigate the complex holistic needs of acute secondary care staff impacted by the current cost-of-living crisis.
• Demand is expected to increase.

 

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