Hospitals still running with nurse staffing levels that put patient lives at risk

Hospitals still running with nurse staffing levels that put patient lives at risk Hospital wards across the NHS in England are still under staffed and putting patient lives at risk despite new policies coming into force as a result of the 2013 Mid-Staffordshire Inquiry, warns a new report published by the University of Southampton.

See also:

• Implementation, impact and costs of policies for safe staffing in acute NHS trusts University of Southampton.
• One in four NHS wards routinely operate at unsafe staffing levels that threaten patient safety The Daily Mail
• One in four NHS wards has dangerously low numbers of nurses, researchers find The Independent