Friends and Family Test - Quarterly Staff Survey
Feedback mechanism for NHS staff to help understand employee experience, and to support decision making and actions for improvement with the ambition of making the NHS the best place to work.
Contents
- Documentation
About this standard
- Publisher
- NHS England
- Also known as
- Friends and Family Test: Quarterly Staff Survey (National Quarterly Pulse Survey (NQPS))
- National Quarterly Pulse Survey (NQPS)
- Reference code
- DAPB2054-3144
- Status
- Active
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- Standard type
- Collections
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Collections. A Collection is a systematic gathering of a specified selection of data or information for a particular stated purpose from existing records held within health and care systems and electronic devices.
Extractions. An extraction is a type of collection that is pulled from an operational system by the data controller and transmitted to the receiver without additional processing or transcription by the sender.
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- Collection level
Aggregate level
- Frequency
Dataset publication or collection occurs every three months.
- Contact point
Using this standard
- Applies to
- All provider organisations will be required to implement from July 2021.
- Effective from
- 01/04/2021
Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Workforce
- Care setting
- Ambulance (Urgent and Emergency Care)
- Community health
- Dentistry
- GP / Primary care
- Hospital
- Maternity
- Mental health
- Military
- Prison
- Urgent and Emergency Care
- Walk in centre
Dependencies and related standards
- Related standards
- Friends and Family Test DCB2054
- Friends and Family Test - Post-COVID Assessment Clinics DAPB2054-4026
- Friends and Family Test
Review Information
- Scope
- Acute Non-Foundation Trusts, Acute Foundation Trusts, Care Non-Foundation Trusts, Care Foundation Trusts, Independent and Voluntary Sector.
- Technical Committee
Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)
Legal basis and endorsements
- Legal authority
Section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
This standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
Section 259 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
NHS standard contract
More information
The survey will provide a consistent and standardised approach, nationally and locally, to listening to our NHS people at more regular intervals. It replaces the Staff Friends and Family Test (Staff FFT) to manage burden at a trust level.
Page last updated: 17 May 2024