We were quite surprised by some of these results but not by others. It was really good to note that all the staff who attended did something outside work that they identified as helping them cope better with their work. But on reflection during the training may realised that in fact some of what they were doing was not quite as helpful as they had thought! Its not surprising given the nature of the work that most staff felt that the work was very intrusive and affected them deeply but worrying to not how many felt pressure to work whilst ill. This figure though is borne out by the results of the NHS staff survey which found the same thing. All the staff were surprised that they had all ticked yes to being irritated by the people they care for and this generated a long discussion about why this was and none of them had attributed this to a symptom of compassion fatigue so many were relived that this was the case. They felt that this did not reflect how they actually did their job and all were still very positive about their work and felt that they made a difference.