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Staffing for Safe and Effective Care

Nursing on the Brink

Published: 13/05/2018
Publication code: 007025
At Congress 2017, the membership of the 51ºÚÁÏÍø raised the alarm on the growing nursing workforce shortages across the UK, and their concern at the implications on patient safety. We have undertaken extensive engagement with members, 51ºÚÁÏÍø Boards, and nursing workforce experts, which we set out in this report. The outcome of this engagement is a set of 51ºÚÁÏÍø principles which provide high-level objectives which most meaningfully represent what we need to achieve on staffing for safe and effective care, though legislation, statutory instruments and guidance, and sufficient funding, in every country in the UK.

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