Safe Staffing
We cannot leave safe staffing to be set locally, insists Susan Osborne
Setting levels locally reinforces the idea of staff numbers being set in accordance with budgets, rather than quality of service and patient safety
Setting levels locally reinforces the idea of staff numbers being set in accordance with budgets, rather than quality of service and patient safety.
AbstractEarlier this month, questions were asked in the House of Lords about why NHS England suspended work on safe staffing guidance being carried out by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Within a couple of weeks of suspending NICE’s work, NHS England published its own guidance on mental health staffing, which was criticised by nurses for its lack of detail on staffing levels and skill mix.
First published in print in Nursing Standard: 29 July 2015, volume 29, issue 48.
About the authorSusan Osborne Chair,
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