Chronic healthcare staff shortages

Persistent and unaddressed staff shortages in hospitals and care settings, leading to compromised patient care and burnout.

19 items 1 source 6 inquiries
Strongest theme matches

Mixed across source types and ranked by classifier confidence plus text match strength.

Indicative ranking
Inquiry recommendation
87match
MAI-86 - Arena healthcare provider staffing requirements
Manchester Arena Inquiry
SMG should ensure that the healthcare service provider at the Arena has adequate staffing and skill levels for every event at that location.
Matched on terms: healthcare, staff
Inquiry recommendation
74match
MAI-10 - Resolve paramedic-driver shortage in mass casualties
Manchester Arena Inquiry
A significant issue in a mass casualty situation is that all of those paramedics who have arrived in ambulances may be required for the treatment of casualties, so that no paramedic is available to drive patients to hospital. The Department of Health and Social Care and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider how to resolve that problem....
Matched on terms: shortage
Inquiry recommendation
66match
R36 - Medical staffing levels
Vale of Leven Inquiry
Health Boards should ensure that the level of medical staffing planned and provided is sufficient to provide safe high-quality care.
Matched on terms: staff
Inquiry recommendation
62match
MAI-148 - LRF staffing and resources
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Home Office should consider, together with local resilience forums, how they are to have sufficient staff and resources to enable them to function effectively.
Matched on terms: staff
Inquiry recommendation
61match
R9 - Integrated workforce plans
Muckamore Abbey Inquiry
Each facility or service should have an integrated workforce plan that includes all allied health professionals (AHPs) and all staff involved in patient care. This should be based upon the assessed needs of the service user and must include protected time for staff to consult with each other.
Matched on terms: staff
Inquiry recommendation
61match
SHI-8 - IPC role specifications and staffing levels
Scottish Hospitals Inquiry
I accordingly recommend that priority be given to protecting scarce IPC resources. With that objective in view, what is expected of consideration and advice from individual disciplines at various stages of a project should be made clear. Job and role specifications for various disciplines, particularly IPC should be similarly identified. I acknowledge that work which may achieve these...
Matched on terms: staff
Inquiry recommendation
57match
R98 - AHP and social care workforce recruitment
Muckamore Abbey Inquiry
The DoH must devise ways to recruit and retain more allied health professionals and social care staff in the community for autistic people and people with learning disabilities.
Matched on terms: staff
Inquiry recommendation
53match
IBI-7c - Transfusion Laboratory Staffing
Infected Blood Inquiry
Transfusion laboratories: Transfusion laboratories should be staffed (and resourced) adequately to meet the requirements of their functions.
Matched on terms: staff
Inquiry recommendation
45match
MAI-156 - Ambulance Liaison Officer resourcing
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Home Office, the Department of Health and Social Care and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider how to ensure that the role of an Ambulance Liaison Officer is properly resourced and also whether venue operators should fund the presence of an Ambulance Liaison Officer where one is required.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-78 - Review NWAS Tactical Advisor numbers
Manchester Arena Inquiry
North West Ambulance Service should review the number of Tactical Advisors and National Interagency Liaison Officers it has, and whether the number of such specialists, both generally and on call, should be increased.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-47 - Sufficient resources for operational planning
Manchester Arena Inquiry
His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the College of Policing and the Home Office should work together to put in place robust systems, policies and guidance to ensure that all police services have sufficient resources dedicated to the development of operational and contingency plans, particularly for responding to Major Incidents, including terrorist attacks.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-44 - Ambulance trusts submit resource recommendations
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Having carried out that review, the trusts should make recommendations to their NHS commissioners about the additional and/or different resources they require in order to ensure that they are able to respond effectively to a mass casualty incident in the numbers required.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-25 - Review embedding doctors with firearms teams
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters should review the evidence heard during the Inquiry, including that heard in restricted sessions, to consider the advantages and disadvantages of embedding doctors with some police firearms teams, and how, if that is advantageous, it could be achieved.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-8 - Review mass casualty response capacity
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Ambulance service trusts should review their capacity to respond to a mass casualty incident. That should include an assessment of whether they have an adequate number of trained specialist personnel to respond effectively to a mass casualty incident.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
34match
21 - Consider extending review to other rural services
Morecambe Bay Investigation
The challenge of providing healthcare in areas that are rural, difficult to recruit to or isolated is not restricted to maternity care and paediatrics. We recommend that NHS England consider the wisdom of extending the review of requirements to sustain safe provision to other services. This is an area lacking in good-quality research yet it affects many regions...
Matched on terms: healthcare
Inquiry recommendation
32match
R102 - Centralised workforce intelligence function
Muckamore Abbey Inquiry
DoH should establish a comprehensive, centralised workforce intelligence function, similar to those in the rest of the UK, within 12 months of the publication of this report. The learning disability service model must include a fully funded, comprehensive workforce model, together with a transition plan to enable the current workforce to deliver the new model.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
31match
8 - Develop recruitment and retention strategy
Morecambe Bay Investigation
The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust should identify a recruitment and retention strategy aimed at achieving a balanced and sustainable workforce with the requisite skills and experience. This should include, but not be limited to, seeking links with one or more other centre(s) to encourage development of specialist and/or academic practice whilst offering opportunities in...
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
31match
20 - National review of maternity care in challenging circumstances
Morecambe Bay Investigation
There should be a national review of the provision of maternity care and paediatrics in challenging circumstances, including areas that are rural, difficult to recruit to, or isolated. This should identify the requirements to sustain safe services under these conditions. In conjunction, a national protocol should be drawn up that defines the types of unit required in different...
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
23match
IBI-7d - Training in Transfusion Medicine
Infected Blood Inquiry
Training in Transfusion Medicine: That those bodies concerned with undergraduate and postgraduate training across the UK of those people who are, or intend to be, working in the NHS ensure that they are adequately trained in transfusion, that the standards by which sufficiency of training is measured are defined, and accountability for training in transfusion be defined.
Matched on classifier match