17 April 2026
Is your employer is a flex hero or zero? Take the quiz
Take our flex quiz to see if your employer is a flex hero or zero.
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24 March 2026
Practical tools for flex: Doncaster and Bassetlaw's flexible working toolkit
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals developed a flexible working toolkit to embed a flexible working culture across the Trust. Senior People Business Partner Laura Fawcett explains the work they’re doing to shift the dial and support colleagues to balance their home and work lives, whilst delivering high quality services.
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12 March 2026
Think Flex First NHS – A Cultural Movement
Aliya Rehman from NHS Employers outlines the new cultural movement, ‘Think Flex First’ to build flexibility and choice by default, from day one, for all NHS staff.
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6 March 2026
It’s time to end the postcode lottery on flexible working
The joint NHS unions issued a call to employers today to make flexible working the norm to deliver better patient care and help resolve the staffing crisis.
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27 November 2025
Why are experienced nurses falling through a 'trap door' into lower-paid roles?
Professor Alison Leary MBE talks to us about a new report led by LSBU for the Queen’s Institute of Community Nursing (QICN), which
shows that experienced nurses are not only finding themselves held back from progressing in their careers, but are being forced into lower-paid roles in order to access flexible working opportunities or training.
9 October 2025
Achieving high retention and staff satisfaction in NHS imaging
We spoke to Rachel Nolan, Assistant Imaging Services & Professional Lead at NWAFT, who feels that flexible working, as well as ensuring a clear career path for imaging staff, are the key ingredients for the high levels of retention.
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Making change stick
Aliya Rehman, Staff Experience Programme Lead at NHS Employers, shares practical tips to make flexible working a reality, drawn from NHS trusts who have implemented successful change for their teams.
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3 June 2025
Radiographers talk flex at the fringe
Leandre Archer, Head of Industrial Relations at the Society of Radiographers, recently hosted a fringe session at their Annual Delegates Conference to hear directly from people about their experience of flexible working in the NHS…
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6 May 2025
Why are nurses facing forced demotion?
Nursing is the lowest paid of all graduate professions in the NHS. Alongside a difference in pay, anecdotally we see issues with nurses and nursing support workers being forced to take lower paid roles despite having years of experience.
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24 March 2025
Let’s make bank work better
How many people know that workers on zero-hours contracts don’t just deliver their takeaways, but their healthcare too? Over 150,000 NHS colleagues in England alone do their jobs solely through NHS Banks.
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12 February 2025
Helping physios get more flexible
James Allen is the CSP’s Senior Negotiating Officer in the South West. The CSP’s local stewards, health and safety, and equality reps are the voice in the workplace. Through them, we can understand what problems members are facing and address those. Flexible working is something that comes up frequently both as an employment issue and
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27 November 2024
Think outside the box
By Gill Morgan, National Officer, Employment Relations at Royal College of Nursing As Trade unions we regularly advise our members about their options after a flexible working request has been declined – not surprisingly, one of the more common complaints we hear is that managers aren’t open to exploring different ways of working, and that they are too rigid in their thinking. Often we
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