NETS information poster and QR code

The NETS is now open to all healthcare students, trainees and apprentices, including resident doctors and dentists in postgraduate training. You can see a full list of roles at the bottom of this article.

NETS offers a platform to share your experiences and shape the future of healthcare education. Your feedback helps NHS England's Workforce Training and Education directorate make informed decisions to enhance learning environments, support retention and recruitment.

Take 10 minutes to share your experience in the survey you can also participate by scanning the QR code. The survey is open until Tuesday, 26th November. 

NETS is running alongside the National Staff Survey, which opened on Monday 23rd September. It's the annual survey that gives our colleagues chance to share their experiences of working at CHFT. 

A reminder email has been sent today (Monday, 7th October) with a link to the survey. Your responses are completely confidential and anonymous, it only takes 15 minutes to complete, and the closing date is Tuesday, 29th November 2024.

The email may have gone into your 'Other' inbox. If you don't have time to complete it yet, you can right click the email and select 'Move to Focused' to save it in your main emails for later.

Each week Picker will be selecting at random one lucky colleague who has completed the survey to win a £30 Love To Shop voucher.

The results from last year's survey showed several ways we could improve colleagues experiences working at CHFT, including refreshing our wellbeing offer to include financial wellbeing. From this feedback, CHFT now offers products to support colleagues financial wellbeing such as Wagestream, Credit Union and our top up shops. This year has also seen wellbeing advisors join each division to provide support.

NETS is open to anyone who is in a training post:

  • Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP): All ACP learners.
  • Allied Health Profession (AHP): All pre-and-post registration AHP learners.
  • Apprenticeships: All apprenticeship learners undertaking a placement or post in healthcare.
  • Dental Postgraduate: Dental Public Health, all postgraduate dental training programmes.
  • Healthcare assistant, health visiting staff and other support staff: Learners studying towards a health and social care qualification.
  • Healthcare Science: Learners on Healthcare Science programmes, including the Scientist Training Programme (STP), Higher Specialist Scientist Training Programme (HSST), Echocardiography Training Programme (ETP), and Practitioner Training Programme (PTP).
  • Medical and Dental Undergraduate: Learners at medical or dental schools studying towards an undergraduate medical or dental degree.
  • Medicine Postgraduate: Medicine Public Health, all postgraduate medical training programmes.
  • Midwifery: All midwifery learners, including those returning to practice.
  • Nursing: All nursing learners, including trainee nursing associates.
  • Pharmacy: All GP trainee pharmacists, trainee pharmacists, pre-registration trainee pharmacy technicians and undergraduate pharmacy learners.
  • Physician Associates: All learners undertaking physician associate training.
  • Psychological Professions: All learners undertaking a placement or training post in a psychological profession. 
  • Scientific, therapeutic and technical: Learners undertaking a professionally qualified clinical or scientific education and training programme.