Susan Osborne: unsafe staffing is putting patients at risk of harm

With reports showing unsafe staffing levels are contributing to patient harm in the NHS, recruiting and retaining nurses has never been more crucial, says Susan Osborne

Last December, the Care Quality Commission published a review of the way NHS trusts investigate the deaths of patients in England .

Carried out in response to care failings at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, which failed to properly investigate hundreds of patient deaths, the review found that learning from deaths was not being given sufficient priority in some organisations.

Then in March, NHS England's National Quality Board published