Find out more including how to register and submit your entry for the HPMA Partnership Award 2019.

Matt Hancock, secretary of state for health and care, joined the SPF wider group meeting on 17 October and spoke about his priorities for health and care. The meeting also covered, the Long Term Plan, wholly owned subsidiaries, the flu fighter campaign, tackling violence and the ambulance sector partnership forum.

The September edition of the SPF bulletin features updates from the SPF strategic group meeting and the Workforce Engagement/Experience Workshop, together with details of the Secretary of State's Talk Health and Care portal, where health and care staff can share their views. Read more in the September edition of the SPF bulletin.

SPF's Wider Group met on 10 July. Sara Gorton, trade union chair, welcome Caroline Dinenage, minister of state for care and the new ministerial chair of the SPF. The meeting covered a range of issues including: Agenda for Change pay reform, NHS workplace culture, and NHS England's nursing recruitment campaign. MerseyCare NHS Foundation Trust also presented on their just and learning culture initiative.

The July edition of the SPF bulletin features updates from the SPF strategic group and workforce issues group (WIG). Also featured is an insight into how the North East SPF was created.

Read about the 2018 HPMA Awards ceremony, including case studies and a podcast from our finalists and the overall winner of the SPF award for partnership working: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust's implementation of a just and learning culture.

The May edition of the SPF bulletin features updates from the SPF Strategic Group and SPF Workforce Issues Group (WIG). Also featured is SPF's tackling bullying priorities for 2018/19, and NHS England's staff health and wellbeing framework. Read more in the May SPF bulletin.

SPF's Wider Group met on 15 March. The meeting covered a range of issues including: NHS Staff Survey 2017 results, creating positive cultures and the Flu Fighter campaign. Read more to find out what else was discussed.

The March edition of the SPF bulletin features an update from the SPF Wider Group, the SPF response to the 2017 NHS Staff Survey results and the national and regional SPF response to the draft workforce strategy for health and social care. Also featured is the latest version of the SPF jargon buster which supports NHS staff to understand system change terminology, and you can read about the SPF Strategic Group visits to Integrated Care Systems. Read more in the March SPF bulletin.

SPF Strategic Group members visited a number of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) (formerly ACSs) to identify and understand the key issues at a local level and to help inform the next steps of any national level work.

See the SPF response to the draft workforce strategy.

Read the SPF response to the results of the 2017 NHS Staff Survey, published 6 March 2018.

The February edition of the SPF bulletin features an update from SPF Strategic Group, and a new case study which highlights social partnership working in Bedfordshire, Luton, and Milton Keynes. The bulletin also features resources and support for raising concerns (whistleblowing) and the indicative timetable for implementation of the Workforce Disability Equality Standard. You can also find out about the deadline extension for entries to the HPMA partnership award, and see how to apply. Read more in the February edition of the SPF bulletin.

The SPF held the creating positive cultures summit on 28 November 2017. Bringing together NHS employers, ALB's and trade unions to reflect on the first year of the call to action, and set priorities for the year ahead. Resources from the summit are now available to download from the call to action web page, including summit notes and posters which showcase the excellent tackling bullying initiatives that have been developed by trusts over the last year.

The December edition of the SPF bulletin features an update from SPF Strategic Group, Embedding Partnership Working Group (EPWG), an update on the latest SPF meeting with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The bulletin also features the launch of the HPMA awards 2018, and details of how you can submit an entry for the SPF sponsored partnership award. You can also read about the SPF creating positive cultures summit, as well as the SPF's social media campaign for #AntiBullyingWeek. Read more in the December SPF bulletin.

The Social Partnership Forum (SPF) is pleased with the strong commitment from senior NHS leaders to a co-ordinated and candid approach to workforce issues and that this is reflected in the draft workforce strategy published 13 December 2017. Partners on the SPF welcome the collaborative way the strategy was produced and that there will be a lengthy consultation period, which will give us the opportunity to fully digest the document and agree a considered SPF response by the deadline of 23 March.

The HPMA Excellence Awards 2018 recognise and reward outstanding work in healthcare human resource management. This year the SPF is proud to once again sponsor the partnership award. This prestigious award recognises examples of partnership working between employers, trade unions and other stakeholders, in the provision of health and social care.

Read about the latest SPF Wider Group meeting, which covered progress with the Workforce Race Equality Standard; the 2017/18 Flu Fighter campaign; plans to celebrate the NHS's 70th birthday; and system change and partnership working in Dorset accountable care system (ACS).

The November edition of the SPF bulletin features a summary of the SPF wider group which took place on 18 October, the latest national and regional SPF priorities, and details for the SPF’s twitter account launch. You can find the latest SPF national action log, DOCAS guidance, and an update following the Health Education England (HEE) consultation. The bulletin also features NHS Employers Flu Fighter campaign and details of how your organisation can sign up to join the #jabathon thunderclap.

The September edition of the SPF bulletin features updates from the SPF Strategic Group on 5 September, details of strategic group visits to accountable care systems, as well as summaries from recent Workforce Issues Group meetings. You can find the latest version of the SPF members handbook, and read about the SPF’s key achievements from 2016-17. The bulletin also features updates on the work to tackle bullying and create positive workplace cultures, and details on how you can book your place on the health and care women leaders network conference.

The August edition of the SPF bulletin features updates from the SPF Wider Group on 11 July and the SPF Strategic Group on 27 June, as well as summaries from the latest Workforce Issues Group meetings. You can find updated pension access and New Fair Deal FAQs and download the new NHS Staff Council guidance on apprenticeships. The bulletin also features updates on the progress of the SPF’s tackling bullying work, including links to good practice case studies on supporting a positive culture in NHS organisations, and a review by the BMA on workplace bullying and harassment of doctors and how this could be addressed.

Read about the latest SPF Wider Group meeting where ministerial chair Phillip Dunne conveyed a message that he would continue to prioritise improving patient safety and patient outcomes, performance to improve NHS finances, and workforce issues, including taking forward the SPF's tackling bullying initiative. The group also welcomed Sara Gorton to her first meeting as the new NHS staff side chair of the SPF.

Read about the HPMA Excellence Awards 2017, including case studies and a podcast from our finalists and the overall winner of the SPF award for partnership working - A new attendance policy, a new approach to people management, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals.

This SPF bulletin features details of the SPF stand on the Workforce Village at Confed17, the announcement of the 2017 finalists for the SPF sponsored HPMA award for partnership working, and a new case study highlighting West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust's successful initiative to tackle bullying. You can also read about our new resource, System change - jargon buster, an update to the Staff Transfer Guide, and finally we have added some new resources to the tackle bullying in the NHS web page.

This SPF bulletin features updates from the latest SPF Wider Group and the Embedding Partnership Working Group meetings. Take a look at the write up from the London and Midlands and East partnership conferences. There is also an update on the 2016 NHS Staff Survey results and the 7 Day Services SPF subgroup. The Workforces Issues Group is continuing to take forward the work on tackling bullying in the NHS: a collective call to action - find out more in this edition of the SPF bulletin.

Please read the key communications from the latest SPF Wider Group meeting on 21 March 2017.

The February edition features updates from the SPF Strategic Group, the SPF Sustainability and Transformation Plans workshop, the 7-day services subgroup meeting and the apprenticeships workshop. Find out how your organisation can get involved in the collective call to action to help tackle bullying in the NHS, get an update on the Seen and Heard training initiative and information on the North SPF partnership conference held on 20 January.

Leaders across the NHS are committed to making a difference by promoting supportive cultures where staff can flourish and problem behaviours like bullying are tackled. The SPF has developed the call to action to support and encourage leaders in the NHS to work in partnership with their trade union colleagues, to take further action to tackle bullying in the NHS.

The December edition of the SPF bulletin features updates from the SPF Strategic Group, Embedding Partnership Working Group and National Regional Group. Find out about the work being done by the Workforce Issues Group to help tackle bullying in the NHS. Read about the launch of the HPMA Awards 2017 and download our flyer to help encourage and promote entries to the SPF sponsored partnership award. There is also an update from Devon STP Partnership Forum.

The HPMA Excellence Awards 2017 recognise and reward outstanding work in healthcare human resource management. This year the SPF is proud to once again sponsor the partnership award. This prestigious award recognises examples of partnership working between employers, trade unions and other stakeholders, in the provision of health and social care.

The October edition of the SPF bulletin features updates from the SPF Wider Group on 20 October and the Workforce Issues Group, including the proposals they are taking forward to tackle bullying and harassment in the NHS. There is some information on the Truth Project, which enables victims and survivors of child sexual abuse to share their experiences with the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Please take a look at the SPF portfolio of evidence of impact, which shows where the SPF has made a difference since summer 2015 and the latest version of the SPF action log.

Philip Dunne MP, Minister of State for Health, chaired his first SPF Wider Group meeting on 18 October. A presentation was given from the National Guardians Office including a local freedom to speak up guardian from London. There was updates on NHS Apprenticeships, New Care Models and Sustainability and Transformation Plans and SPF proposals to tackle Bullying and Harassment in the NHS. London NHS Partnership updated the meeting on their regional SPF’s involvement in the STPs and Local Workforce Action Boards and NHS Employers updated on this years Flu Fighter campaign.

The September edition of the SPF bulletin, features updates from the SPF Strategic Group, Workforce Issues Group, Embedding Partnership Working Group and the meeting between SPF members and the CQC Chief Inspectors. Read the guidance that has been developed for social partnership working in developing and implementing new care models and system transformation. Take a look at the learning for life resources on the SPF website and the four regional SPF memoranda of understanding, and listen to a podcast, featuring Danny Mortimer, employer chair of the SPF, talking about the workforce of 2020.

Ben Gummer MP, Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Care Quality, chaired the meeting. In his introduction Minister focused on the implications of Brexit and the need for all organisations to support their EU workers. He asked partners to pass on the enormous value both he and the Secretary of State place on EU workers within the NHS. Discussions then followed on the Workforce Race Equality Standard, tackling bullying and harassment in the NHS and healthy workplaces.

The July bulletin focuses on the SPF proposals to tackle bullying and harassment in the NHS, partnership working in New Care Models and the #LoveOurEUStaff campaign. Read updates from the Wider SPF, Strategic Group, Embedding Partnership Working Group, Workforce Issues Group and National Regional Group. Also take a look at the newly refreshed SPF Partnership Agreement.

Find out about the 2016 HPMA Awards ceremony and read case studies and listen to a podcast from our finalists and overall winner, Somerset Partnership NHS FT for their See Something, Say Something campaign.

The June edition of the SPF bulletin features information about the SPFs proposals to tackle bullying and harassment in the NHS, the new interactive SPF infograhpic and the SPF Staff Transfer Guide. Key updates include the SPF Workforce Issues Group and read more about successful partnerships in the case studies from Liverpool CCG and North West TUC union learn and Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust.

The March edition of the SPF bulletin features information about the SPFs proposals to tackle bullying and harassment in the NHS, the new interactive SPF infograhpic and the SPF Staff Transfer Guide. Key updates include the SPF Wider Group, Embedding Partnership Working Group, SPF meeting with the CQC, the Shared Delivery Plan/Five Year Forward View meeting and the Healthy Workplace Initiative.

Ben Gummer, Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Care Quality, chaired the 8 March SPF Wider Group meeting. Discussions centred around proposals to tackle bullying and harassment in the NHS and the role of the National Guardian. Somerset Partnership presented on the see something, say something campaign which was rolled out in their trust. Updates were given on the NHS Staff Survey 2015 Results, and the outcomes from the shared delivery plan/five year forward view workshop.

The February edition of the bulletin features information about how to get involved with the HPMA Awards 2016. Please also take a look at the newly published Staff Transfer Guide which is an online resource for staff transferring in and out of the NHS. There are also updates from the Staff Survey Results 2015, SPF Strategic Group, Workforce Issues Group and the Embedding Partnership Working Group.

The December edition of the SPF bulletin features updates about the SPF Wider Group, SPF Strategic Group, the Embedding Partnership Working Group, National Regional Group, Workforces Issues Group (formerly Staff Passport Group), the launch of the 2016 HPMA Awards and the new SPF Infographic.

Our new infographic shows the SPF organisational structure and the relationships between the SPF Wider Group and the SPF subgroups.

The October SPF Wider Group meeting discussed the healthy workplaces initiatives, tackling bullying and harassment in the NHS, the NHS Five Year Forward View, the North of England Regional SPF and the flu fighter campaign 2015/16.

The Department of Health is running a month long social media campaign to raise awareness on the NHS Constitution.

The September edition of the SPF bulletin features updates from the SPF Strategic Group, the Embedding Partnership Working Group, the healthy workplaces initiative and health sector social partners working in Europe.

Discussions at the July SPF centred around the Five Year Forward View, the Freedom to speak up review, the London NHS partnership, the SPF stocktake 2015 report and the HPMA Partnership Working Award.

The July edition of the SPF Bulletin features updates from the SPF Strategic Group, SPF Wider Group, SPF sub group updates, SPF dementia workshop and the 2015/16 flu fighter campaign.

This HPMA Awards Special SPF Bulletin features all the news from the 2015 HPMA awards ceremony, and case studies and podcasts from our winners, Guy's and St Thomas', and our other two finalists Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.

The SPF Bulletin features updates from the SPF Strategic Group workshop, the Embedding Partnership Working Group and the SPF meeting with the CQC.

The SPF Bulletin features updates from the SPF Strategic Group, key comms from the SPF Wider Group, Embedding Partnership Working Group and the Staff Passport Group.

'Culture Change in the NHS – Applying the lessons of the Francis inquiries' sets out the progress made in applying the lessons learned from the failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.

Sir Robert Francis has published his report on the Freedom to Speak Up review. The report sets out 20 Principles and Actions which aim to create the right conditions for NHS staff to speak up, share what works right across the NHS, and get all organisations up to the standard of the best and provide redress when things go wrong in future.

Discussions at the February SPF wider group meeting centred on BME leadership in the NHS, the Freedom To Speak Up Review, the 2014 NHS staff survey results and the consultation on the NHS constitution.

The consultation to inform an update of the NHS Constitution, is now live. The consultation closes on 11 March 2015.

Download our HPMA Awards flyer and use it to promote and encourage entries for the SPF award for partnership working between employers and trade unions. Deadline for entries for the award is Thursday 12 March 2015.

The December bulletin includes updates from the SPF Strategic Group, Staff Passport Group, an interview on partnership working from Oxleas Trust, the launch of the 2015 HPMA Awards and the 2015 SPF Stocktake review.

Read about the positive partnership working between Employers and Trade Unions at the HSCIC.

The November bulletin includes updates from the SPF Wider Group meeting, a meeting with CQC and SPF members, fives rules for data sharing and personalised health and care 2020: a framework for action.

Discussions at the October SPF wider group meeting centred on Health Education England (HEE) on return to practice, Values Based Recruitment, The Talent for Care strategic framework and a joint presentation from Department of Health (DH) and Trade Unions on New Fair Deal for Staff Pensions and NHS Pension ACCESS.

Welcome to Octobers edition of the SPF bulletin. This edition includes an update from the SPF Strategic Group and both its subgroups, the Flu Fighter Campaign and some best practice case studies, which showcase successful partnership working in the NHS.

Congratulations go to Business Services Organisation and Trade Unions, the winner of the award, for their project which used a partnership approach to promote Lesbian, Gay, bisexual and transgender inclusive workplaces.

Download the SPF Fact sheet here.

The Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) is seeking input on three new modules it has developed to support the Sustainable Development Strategy for the health and care system. The new modules, which will combine with the five original modules launched alongside the strategy in January 2014, cover: • An integrated metrics approach • Innovation, technology and R&D • Creating social value The SDU welcome responses from those involved with or interested in any of the areas above. The consultation closes on 31 August.

Read July’s bulletin from the Social Partnership Forum. It contains a full round-up of all the latest news including brand new guidance on staff engagement and partnership working; newly published joint national guidance on local partnership working on health and safety; updates from the Staff Passport Group, the Embedding Partnership Working Group, the Wider Partnership Group and much more.

Dr Dan Poulter, Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Health opened the meeting which included a number of strategic updates and discussion items. Dominic Picillo from MENCAP provided an update on whistleblowing and there was feedback from the North of England Regional Partnership. A video presentation on genomics was introduced by Health Education England (HEE). In addition, updates were given on the Francis one year on report, the SPF Strategic Group, the Greenaway Report, Talent for Care, the SPF Learning for Life Campaign and the SPF Stocktake Report 2014.

Welcome to the second SPF bulletin of 2014. Read about the National SPF Strategic group meeting, the work of the SPF subgroups, Values Based Recruitment newsletter, the Care Act Consultation and a case study on the development of the North West Social Partnership Forum.

The key comms from the North of England SPF, which was held on 5 March 2014 have been published.

A key theme from the wider group meeting was staff engagement and included presentations from Professor Michael West from King’s Fund/Lancaster University and Sue Baker from Time to Change. Updates were given on the NHS Staff Survey results, the SPF Staff Passport Toolkit, HEE’s national workforce plan and the Flu Fighter Campaign and also from the SPF Strategic Group and the SPF Francis Subgroup.

Welcome to the new look SPF website. Find out more about the new features, design and let us know your thoughts.

NHS England published the NHS Standard Contract for 2014/15 on 20th December.

Do you have an excellent example of partnership working in your organisation? Then share your good practice by entering the 2014 HPMA award for partnership working between employers and trade unions, which is SPF-sponsored.

The SPF has published various tools, evidence, good practice and guidance on how organisations can address recommendations that sit under each of the six SPF key messages developed by the Francis subgroup in response to the Francis Inquiry Report.

Items discussed at the November meeting included future ways of working, the government’s further response to the Francis Public Inquiry Report, the Pensions Access Framework Agreement, and the SPF Learning for Life campaign.