Safe staffing

The National Quality Board, sponsored by Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer in England, has published new guidance for providers and commissioners about staffing. This guidance describes approaches to organisations reporting on staffing levels on a monthly basis. It helps them to make the right decisions about nursing, midwifery and care staffing capacity and capability.

We have published the relevant staffing reports and any related documents on this page. We will continue to do so each month. Each of the safe staffing reports provides numbers on a per ward basis for the Trust.

Purpose

"High quality, compassionate care is about people, not institutions. In every ward and clinic, in every hospital, health centre, community service and patient’s home across the country, nursing, midwifery and care staff work to provide care and compassion to people when they need it. This could be at the beginning, or end of their life; in times of illness or uncertainty; or as part of helping people with long term conditions to stay as healthy and live as independently as possible."

We must all find the provision of sub-standard and unsafe care to patients intolerable. We do all we can to support our staff to provide high quality, compassionate care.

That is why members of the National Quality Board, which brings together the different parts of the NHS system with responsibilities for quality, have come together. They work alongside patients and experts, and the Chief Nursing Officer in England. They collectively set out the expectations of NHS providers and commissioners in this area.

We are aware that the documents on this page may not be accessible for all. We will be creating accessible versions of the documents as they are reviewed however in the meantime, if you need a document we’ve published in a different format, please email lpft.communications@nhs.net or call 01522 309194