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.
Inquiry recommendation
87match
MAI-86 - Arena healthcare provider staffing requirements
SMG should ensure that the healthcare service provider at the Arena has adequate staffing and skill levels for every event at that location.
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terms: healthcare, staff
Inquiry recommendation
74match
MAI-10 - Resolve paramedic-driver shortage in mass casualties
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....
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terms: shortage
Inquiry recommendation
66match
R36 - Medical staffing levels
Health Boards should ensure that the level of medical staffing planned and provided is sufficient to provide safe high-quality care.
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terms: staff
Inquiry recommendation
62match
MAI-148 - LRF staffing and resources
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.
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terms: staff
Inquiry recommendation
61match
R9 - Integrated workforce plans
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.
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terms: staff
Inquiry recommendation
61match
SHI-8 - IPC role specifications and staffing levels
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...
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terms: staff
Inquiry recommendation
57match
R98 - AHP and social care workforce recruitment
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.
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terms: staff
Inquiry recommendation
53match
IBI-7c - Transfusion Laboratory Staffing
Transfusion laboratories: Transfusion laboratories should be staffed (and resourced) adequately to meet the requirements of their functions.
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terms: staff
Inquiry recommendation
45match
MAI-156 - Ambulance Liaison Officer resourcing
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.
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Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-78 - Review NWAS Tactical Advisor numbers
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.
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Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-47 - Sufficient resources for operational planning
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.
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Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-44 - Ambulance trusts submit resource recommendations
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.
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Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-25 - Review embedding doctors with firearms teams
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.
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Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-8 - Review mass casualty response capacity
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.
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Inquiry recommendation
34match
21 - Consider extending review to other rural services
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...
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terms: healthcare
Inquiry recommendation
32match
R102 - Centralised workforce intelligence function
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.
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Inquiry recommendation
31match
8 - Develop recruitment and retention strategy
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...
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Inquiry recommendation
31match
20 - National review of maternity care in challenging circumstances
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...
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Inquiry recommendation
23match
IBI-7d - Training in Transfusion Medicine
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.
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