Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to reduce rates of staff bullying in the NHS.

The Government is committed to reducing staff bullying in the National Health Service. In 2016, the Government in partnership with the Social Partnership Forum, arm’s length bodies, NHS Employers and trade unions, launched the ‘Collective Call to Action’ with leaders across the National Health Service, pledging to making a difference by promoting supportive cultures where staff can flourish and problem behaviours, such as bullying, are tackled. The ‘Collective Call to Action’ invites all organisations to publish their plans and progress on tackling bullying so staff, patients and the public can hold them to account.