®Staff health is now a board metric. Can you see it before the survey does?
From July 2026, NHS trusts in England are measured on six new Staff Standards, including health and wellbeing, with clear accountability at board level. MACH Health® shows you how your nurses are arriving, shift by shift.
The NHS Staff Standards
- Health and wellbeingWhere MACH helps most
- Line management
- Flexible working
- Violence prevention and reduction
- Tackling racism
- Sexual safety
Your staff survey now moves your rating.
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Standards trusts must meet
Secondary care trusts, including acute, mental health and ambulance trusts, from July 2026.
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A year: the staff survey
Performance on the standards is assessed through the annual NHS Staff Survey.
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Feeds your oversight rating
Results feed a headline metric in the NHS Oversight Framework, published in league tables.
Sources: GOV.UK, 6 July 2026 · NHS Employers
The strain is already showing.
The survey tells you once a year. Your nurses arrive every shift.
Annual surveys look back. Sickness absence only counts the days people are off. Neither shows the nurse who came in exhausted this morning.
- A pre-shift check-in, then personalised prompts through the shift: matched to role, shift pattern and skill level, focused on safety, fatigue and wellbeing
- Patterns by ward, specialty and band, de-identified, groups of 10 or more
- Alerts when a team trends towards risk, so you can act before it reaches the survey
- A board-ready monthly brief showing what you did and what changed
Our pilot in an NHS acute trust in England.
Selecting Phase 2 NHS partners now.
A 12-month, two-phase programme with success measures agreed up front.