Nurses

(asked on 28th October 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has commissioned on the potential benefits of real-time reporting of nurse staffing numbers at NHS hospitals.


Answered by
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 4th November 2014

The Department is seeking to commission a strategic initiative of research to evaluate the Government’s response to the Francis report and help inform future policy. It is planned that the initiative will initially comprise six projects, including a project on safe staffing levels. The specification document for the call for research proposals is available on the Policy Research Programme Central Commissioning Facility website at the following address:

http://www.prp-ccf.org.uk/PRPFiles/Evaluation%20of%20response%20to%20Francis%20Inquiry%20-%20ITT%20v1.pdf

However, data in relation to safe staffing numbers is currently published on NHS Choices (www.nhs.uk).

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