Staffing Levels
4
Recommendations
100% accepted
Government Response
Accepted (2)Accepted in Part (2)
Recommendations in This Theme
recommendation across 1 inquiry
Across 1 inquiry
Tagged Recommendations
4 total
F163
Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Safe staff numbers and skills
The General Medical Council's system of reviewing the acceptability of the provision of training by healthcare providers must include a review of the sufficiency of the numbers and skills of …
- The GMC's "Promoting Excellence: Standards for Medical Education and Training" (2015) includes requirements that education and training providers must have sufficient numbers of appropriately …
GMC
F205
Accepted in Part
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Strengthening the nursing professional voice
Commissioning arrangements should require the boards of provider organisations to seek and record the advice of its nursing director on the impact on the quality of care and patient safety …
- The government's response in "Hard Truths" (Cm 8777, November 2013) accepted this recommendation and stated that boards should seek and record the advice of …
Commissioners
F23
Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Responsibility for regulating and monitoring compliance
The measures formulated by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence should include measures not only of clinical outcomes, but of the suitability and competence of staff, and the …
- NICE has published quality standards and clinical guidelines covering clinical outcomes across a range of specialties (NICE, www.nice.org.uk). - NICE published safe staffing guideline …
F93
Accepted in Part
Mid Staffs Inquiry
NHS Litigation Authority Improvement of risk management
The NHS Litigation Authority should introduce requirements with regard to observance of the guidance to be produced in relation to staffing levels, and require trusts to have regard to evidence-based …
- NICE published safe staffing guidance SG1 (Safe staffing for nursing in adult inpatient wards in acute hospitals) in July 2014, directly in response to …