CEIH contributes to the national conversation on workplace wellbeing in healthcare

Across August and Sep­tem­ber 2026, the CEIH con­tributed to three major nation­al work­force forums:

• the Nation­al Nurs­ing Forum 
• the Nation­al Health Work­force Sum­mit, and the
• Well­ness Designs’ Indus­try Round­table for the Health­care and Social Assis­tance sector. 

These events pro­vid­ed an oppor­tu­ni­ty to share prac­ti­cal approach­es to improv­ing work­place well­be­ing across the health system. 

At the Nation­al Nurs­ing Forum, our Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Con­sumer and Clin­i­cal Part­ner­ships, and Strate­gic Lead, Work­place Well­be­ing Part­ner­ships, spoke about how lead­er­ship, gov­er­nance and organ­i­sa­tion­al capac­i­ty can cre­ate envi­ron­ments where both staff and patient care can thrive. They explored these ideas through the lens of what nurs­ing could look like in 10 years’ time. 

At the Nation­al Health Work­force Sum­mit, the team pre­sent­ed Well­be­ing by Design: Gov­ern­ing the Con­di­tions that Sus­tain our Health­care Work­force. The pre­sen­ta­tion high­light­ed the impor­tance of mov­ing from reac­tive approach­es focused on burnout and harm towards proac­tive strate­gies that strength­en the con­di­tions enabling work­force wellbeing. 

Build­ing on these themes, the Health­care and Social Assis­tance Indus­try Round­table show­cased the CEIH and Women’s and Children’s Heath Net­work Work­place Well­be­ing Part­ner­ship project as a case study of how these ideas can be put into practice. 

Togeth­er, these pre­sen­ta­tions high­light the CEIH’s role in advanc­ing prac­ti­cal, evi­dence-informed approach­es to work­place wellbeing. 

They also reflect grow­ing nation­al inter­est in:

• strength­en­ing lead­er­ship and governance 
• build­ing organ­i­sa­tion­al capability
• using work­force insights to guide action 
• redesign­ing work to cre­ate health­i­er, safer and more sus­tain­able workplaces.

Inter­est­ed in strength­en­ing work­place well­be­ing in your ser­vice or team? 

Explore the CEI­H’s work­place well­be­ing resources and frame­work.