More than one in five staff members at Nottingham's hospitals say they have been bullied or abused by a colleague, according to responses to a recent NHS survey. The findings show of the 6,582 staff who answered, 22.5 per cent were either bullied, harassed or abused by a fellow worker at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) in the past 12 months.
The results from the survey, which had a response rate of 40 per cent and was carried out from September to November, also show that a third of staff at NUH, which runs Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital, 'often' think about quitting their job, in line with the national average.
However the findings are above average in terms of bullying, with 19.5 per cent of NHS staff in England experiencing the behaviour. A total of 14 per cent of staff also said they had experienced it from managers at NUH.
