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Practice Plus Standards:-

  • Improving levels of staff feeling safe in their working environment
  • Increasing awareness of the PCT’s response following physical and/or non physical assault
  • Meeting local goals in reducing accidents and levels of sickness absence and demonstrating continuous improvement
  • Effective occupational health and safety strategies that support the health and well being of staff, with staff counselling services that are culturally appropriate
  • Existence of proactive occupational health services, easily accessible to all staff including general practice staff
  • Staff are rehabilitated back into work, or redeployed under the terms of the Disability Discrimination Act
  • Changing the long hours culture
  • Movement towards effective implementation of New Deal for doctors and compliance with New Deal hours and rest requirements
  • Achievement of junior doctors contractual hours targets
  • Improving levels of satisfaction with rest facilities, accommodation, working environment and catering for all staff

Summary of findings from 2nd Self Assessment - March 2005

Bolton PCT takes the safety and healthy working of its staff seriously.