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The NHS is the UK’s publicly funded medical and healthcare provider.

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NHS job reviews

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  • Best thing

    Problem solving/diagnosing, a lot of responsibility,

    Worst thing

    Tough, stressful, busy, underpaid

    8.5

    NHS Employee, May 2023

  • Best thing

    You help people

    Worst thing

    Everything you aren’t given enough time to do things and you are a number over worked

    4.3

    NHS Employee, May 2023

  • Best thing

    Local to my house and Stable income

    Worst thing

    Being micromanaged, stress, aggressive patients, controlling managers

    1.2

    NHS Employee, May 2023

  • Best thing

    Flexibility
    Trusted to work to my best potential independently
    No micromanagement

    Worst thing

    Attitude / behaviour of others
    I cannot be creative (I do hair and makeup as a side job)
    Culture
    I’m over qualified
    Disorganisation

    7.0

    NHS Employee, May 2023

  • Best thing

    Teambuilding
    Problem solving
    Kindness everywhere
    Helping people
    Caring about others

    Worst thing

    Management interference and demands
    High workload
    Management not listening to teams

    7.0

    NHS Administrator, April 2023

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  • Worst thing

    The people and the behaviours destroying individuals confidence causing them to be off sick for 2 weeks to a month it’s an unhealthy environment

    3.7

    NHS Administrator, April 2023

  • Best thing

    The effort and energy that 75% of the staff put in to their role. We really try hard and those of us that work hard, work extremely hard for our patients and colleagues alike.

    Worst thing

    We are underpaid and over-worked. Our wage is OK, howeverghe cost of the degrees required and the debts accrued whilst in training, for many of us that is a year on unpaid work, doesn't match the salary.

    We are also declined holidays, whether a day, long weekend or a week due to short staffing. So we are exhausted as a team. To rub the salt in the wound our unsised holidays are stripped from us at the end of the year, no pay, no roll over, no accounting our leave.

    Finally, those that don't put the work in are never penalised or let go. So we hard workers have to pick up their slack and they get the same wage as us.

    Very unfair.

    3.9

    NHS Biomedical scientist, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Having the opportunity to help people every day.

    Worst thing

    Burnout, stress, working overtime, not being able to rely on my team to get all jobs done, poor teamwork, lack of communication, staff being judgemental/disrespectful towards each other, staff talking about each other behind their backs

    5.0

    NHS Employee, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Helping people

    Worst thing

    Not having proper breaks
    Staff shortage
    Under paid work
    Under appreciated

    4.2

    NHS HCA, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Working with an amazing team who supports you however they can. Working with patients and the watching them recover.

    Worst thing

    The risks of injury that comes with watching working this job. The pay.

    9.2

    NHS Healthcare assistant, April 2023

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  • Best thing

    Consider things like caring for sick partner or children

    Worst thing

    Sometimes quite hard to get taught to do things as quite short on staff at times . Computer system quite complicated and again not enough training and information given

    9.9

    NHS Employee, April 2023

  • Best thing

    My colleagues

    Worst thing

    Hard work physically and mentally, wage does not reflect it.

    8.5

    NHS HCA, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Teamwork helping others

    Worst thing

    Understaffing lack of resources

    9.4

    NHS Domestic assistant, April 2023

  • Best thing

    My work family

    Worst thing

    The bulling that goes on the rudeness of the patients and tge aggression we get managers sit in an office and dont give a dame about the good staff them if you complaine they get rid of you crap wage horrible hours

    2.6

    NHS Employee, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Helping people

    Worst thing

    Booking holiday, abuse from people

    6.1

    NHS Medical receptionist, April 2023

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  • Best thing

    I get to help people

    Worst thing

    Never enough staff

    7.3

    NHS Pharmacy technician, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Team

    Worst thing

    Not enough staff or pay

    8.2

    NHS Healthcare assistant, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Being able to learn

    Worst thing

    Feels at time communication and team work shocking

    9.0

    NHS Employee, April 2023

  • Best thing

    The team and surroundings, helping others

    Worst thing

    Longer shifts at times

    9.5

    NHS Receptionist, April 2023

  • Best thing

    caring for people.

    Worst thing

    the pay and the policy for sickness

    7.6

    NHS Health care assistant, April 2023

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  • Best thing

    The team I work with

    Worst thing

    Quick turn around

    9.0

    NHS Nursing assistant, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Patience

    Worst thing

    Managers, lack of money

    4.1

    NHS Phlebotomists, March 2023

  • Best thing

    The people I work with and some of the patients we look after

    Worst thing

    Management, abuse from patients and the pay

    3.2

    NHS Receptionist, March 2023

  • Best thing

    Helping people

    Worst thing

    Physically and verbally abused. Never enough staff, always blamed for any issues that arise as management want you in 4 places at once.

    Get more money working in a supermarket and a mistake there won't kill someone

    1.5

    NHS Nurse, March 2023

  • Best thing

    The team are good to work with

    Worst thing

    It’s not very well organised and we are relied to take on more consultants than we should be taking on

    2.1

    NHS Employee, March 2023

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  • Best thing

    Mon-Fri

    Worst thing

    Bitchiness, managers/supervisors not doing their workload.

    3.0

    NHS Administrator, March 2023

  • Best thing

    Not stressful and no micromanaging

    Worst thing

    Distance of location

    10

    NHS Employee, March 2023

  • Best thing

    It’s never boring

    Worst thing

    Not enough staff

    6.6

    NHS Employee, March 2023

  • Best thing

    Breaks, staff

    Worst thing

    The rota, pay

    6.0

    NHS Employee, March 2023

  • Best thing

    My colleagues

    Worst thing

    Patients attitude towards us.

    7.8

    NHS Receptionist, March 2023

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  • Best thing

    Some of my coworkers are ok

    Worst thing

    The lack of communication between coworkers and management they tell who they want to tell things about

    2.3

    NHS Employee, March 2023

  • Best thing

    Helping people, making a difference

    Worst thing

    Rude patients who make it difficult to do your job

    9.8

    NHS Receptionist, March 2023

  • Best thing

    Nothing

    Worst thing

    overworked, spoken to like children but expected to triage patients when we have no clincal training and underpaid

    2.5

    NHS Medical secretary, March 2023

  • Best thing

    Colleagues I work with

    Worst thing

    Operations manager

    5.0

    NHS Medical secretary, March 2023

  • Best thing

    The people and feeling like you’ve made a difference

    Worst thing

    Lots of things.

    8.9

    NHS Nursing assistant, March 2023

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  • Best thing

    Free coffee

    Worst thing

    The attitude of other staff

    7.0

    NHS Employee, March 2023

  • Best thing

    I am able to make a difference in people's lives.

    Worst thing

    Unsocial hours, extremely busy work schedule, horrible work-life balance, I have to stay late every day and I'm not paid for these hours etc.

    4.5

    NHS Employee, March 2023

  • Best thing

    The occasional thank you from patients

    Worst thing

    Micromanagement. Violence and threats from patients. Regularly having to work late and miss breaks (unpaid). Thankless work. Feeling stressed all the time, but especially if I have time off sick (and how management will react)

    2.0

    NHS Employee, March 2023

  • Best thing

    Making a difference where people need it most.

    Worst thing

    Misunderstanding, disrespect, ignorance, manipulation, belittling, laziness, carelessness,

    1.8

    NHS Housekeeper, March 2023

  • Best thing

    The end of the day

    Worst thing

    The office

    1.6

    NHS Employee, March 2023

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  • Best thing

    Assisting in patient care and needs

    Worst thing

    Treated like a tool

    2.8

    NHS HCA, March 2023

  • Best thing

    Work from home opportunities.
    No micromanagement

    Worst thing

    Boredom
    No training
    Not feeling respected
    NO TRAINING.

    4.3

    NHS Administrator, February 2023

  • Best thing

    The patients. The satisfaction

    Worst thing

    Pay. Working conditions. Management

    5.0

    NHS Employee, February 2023

  • Best thing

    Flexibility of hours and continuity of care with patients. Also autonomy

    Worst thing

    Repetitive and no scope for personal development

    9.5

    NHS Employee, February 2023

  • Best thing

    People facing

    Worst thing

    Problem squeezing in ecgs and bloods

    9.7

    NHS Health care assistant, February 2023

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  • Best thing

    Being able to look after patients

    Worst thing

    Management and no progress

    6.0

    NHS Healthcare assistant, February 2023

  • Best thing

    Colleagues

    Worst thing

    Stress over crowded one toilet for male and female - 30 + staff , drab working conditions, short staffed high turnover as it’s horrible

    5.5

    NHS Administrator, February 2023

  • Best thing

    Learning new stuff

    Worst thing

    Given several projects that can be unrealistic to meet

    9.5

    NHS IT technician, February 2023

  • Best thing

    The team

    Worst thing

    Not enough staff

    9.3

    NHS Employee, February 2023

  • Best thing

    Holidays

    Worst thing

    Short staffed all the time

    6.4

    NHS HCA, February 2023