Our NHS Staff Survey 2025 results have been published
1504 of our colleagues at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust have shared their views in the NHS Staff Survey 2025, using their voice to help us understand their experience at our Trust.
Our results show we are broadly in line with other Mental Health & Learning Disability and Mental Health, Learning Disability & Community Trust across the country.
The NHS Staff Survey 2025 is carried out every year to improve staff experiences across the NHS.
As an NHS Trust, we uphold the NHS People Promise: “to work together to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone.” The survey measures our performance across seven themes.
Top results and areas for attention
- Compassionate and inclusive: Our highest-performing theme, with 85% of staff saying their role makes a difference to service users.
- Flexible working: 81% of staff feel they can approach their manager about flexible working.
- Areas needing focus: Morale and safe and healthy working, where we’ve seen decreases.
Our Chief Executive Officer Sara Munro shared this message:
“Colleagues have come forward to help us understand their experience, celebrate what’s working well, and tell us where we can make meaningful improvements where they’re needed most.
I am pleased to see that flexibility remains a key strength, and that 88.32% of staff reported that reasonable adjustments were made (where needed) to enable them to do their work, the highest among our peers.
Our results highlight our commitment to a compassionate and inclusive culture, reflected in strong diversity and equality scores.
The survey also shows that working life has become tougher in some areas, particularly around safe and healthy working and morale. Morale has dipped nationally, reflecting the pressure many colleagues are facing across the NHS. We remain committed to supporting staff wellbeing and ensuring colleagues feel valued.
We must also do more to learn from our work and develop our people for the future. This includes refining objectives and ensuring our colleagues are recognised for their hard work.
Some of the most immediate and meaningful improvements happen within teams, so I encourage colleagues to review these results with their manager and embed positive change throughout the year.
This year, the Board has committed to identifying priority areas and publishing a clear action plan in response.
Thank you to all of our staff who have taken the time to make their voice heard through the NHS Staff Survey, helping to make LYPFT a great place to work and receive care.”
Our 2025 NHS Staff Survey results at a glance
- We are compassionate and inclusive: 85% of staff feel that their role makes a difference to service users.
- We are recognised and rewarded: 77% of staff feel their immediate line manager values their work.
- We each have a voice that counts: 90% of staff feel trusted to do their job.
- We are safe and healthy: 64% of staff feel that LYPFT takes positive action on health and wellbeing.
- We are always learning: 89% of staff have had a Personal Development Review in the last 12 months.
- We work flexibly: 81% of staff can approach their immediate manager to talk openly about flexible working.
- We are a team: 76% of staff feel their team has a set of shared objectives.
- Engagement: 78% of staff feel there are frequent opportunities to show initiative in their role.
- Morale: 81% of staff always know what their work responsibilities are.
Next steps
We’re asking teams to continue with their intention planning, working together to respond to their team-level results to drive meaningful improvement. Teams are able to explore this data using our internal business intelligence platform.
We look forward to the national publication of our Bank workforce results in mid-April 2026.
LYPFT is committed to turning these insights into action and supporting our teams to work together to improve service user care.
Page last updated: 12th Mar 2026 11:44am