Ms Anne Marie Hoey:

-----leave and so on. Our survey gives us a good indication of the reasons people stay with us. It also gives us an indication of areas that we need to improve upon to retain people. Our staff turnover figures give us an indication of the turnover within the health service. We can compare them to other organisations. The staff turnover figure for the year to date is approximately 4.2%, which is slightly down on last year’s figure. These figures and the staff survey give us rich data on why people work in the HSE and what we need to do to improve our staff retention.