Safe staffing levels

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1. Nuffield Trust: How staff joined the NHS under the 50,000 nurses programme – and why they left (4 April 2026)

   • Workforce management
   • Nurse

   By Patient Safety Learning, 16 April

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   • 16 April

2. Eliminating hospital nurse understaffing is a cost-effective patient safety intervention (8 June 2025)

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   By Patient Safety Learning, 26 June, 2025

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   • 26 June, 2025

3. Cost-effectiveness of eliminating hospital understaffing by nursing staff: a retrospective longitudinal study and economic evaluation (29 April 2025)

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   • Recruitment
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     • Nurse
     • Admission
     • Research
     • Patient harmed

   By Patient Safety Learning, 23 May, 2025

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   • 23 May, 2025

4. RCN: Registered nurse staffing levels for patient safety, care quality and cost effectiveness (7 May 2025)

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   By Patient Safety Learning, 23 May, 2025

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   • 23 May, 2025

5. Royal College of Nursing: Registered nurse staffing levels for patient safety, care quality and cost effectiveness (7 May 2025)

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   By Patient Safety Learning, 16 May, 2025

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   • 16 May, 2025

6. BMJ Editorial: Staff retention and mortality (20 November 2024)

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     • Patient death
     • Organisational culture

   By Patient Safety Learning, 21 November, 2024

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   • 21 November, 2024

7. Nurse understaffing associated with adverse outcomes for surgical admissions (24 September 2024)

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     • Surgery - General
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     • Nurse
     • Patient death
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   By Patient Safety Learning, 24 September, 2024

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   • 24 September, 2024

8. Nursing team composition and mortality following acute hospital admission (19 August 2024)

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   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 29 August, 2024

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   • 29 August, 2024

9. Redeployment: A patient safety issue (11 February 2024)

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     • Organisation / service factors
     • Safe staffing

   By Patient Safety Learning, 14 February, 2024

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   • 14 February, 2024

10. London Eye: Patient harm? ‘Definitely’

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 8 February, 2024

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    • 8 February, 2024

11. APIC staffing calculator

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    • Medicine - Acute internal
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      • Hospital ward
      • Clinic
      • Human factors
      • Workforce management

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 16 January, 2024

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    • 16 January, 2024

12. National Nurses United: National safe staffing ratios

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      • Staff support
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      • USA

    By Patient Safety Learning, 10 January, 2024

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    • 10 January, 2024

13. Community Hospitals Association: Resource pack on safer staffing (13 October 2023)

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      • Community care
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    By Patient Safety Learning, 16 October, 2023

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    • 16 October, 2023

14. Why occupational health should be universally accessible (6 June 2023)

    • Staff factors

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 4 July, 2023

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    • 4 July, 2023

15. The mythbuster: Calls for more NHS staff are often misleading and dangerous

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    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 5 June, 2023

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    • 5 June, 2023

16. Nurse staffing levels and patient outcomes: A systematic review of longitudinal studies (October 2022)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 19 May, 2023

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    • 19 May, 2023

17. Nurse staffing and patient safety in acute hospitals: Cassandra calls again? (6 December 2022)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 13 May, 2023

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    • 13 May, 2023

18. The impact of adding assistants in nursing to acute care hospital ward nurse staffing on adverse patient outcomes: An analysis of administrative health data (November 2016)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 12 May, 2023

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    • 12 May, 2023

19. Staffing on wards: Making decisions about healthcare staffing (16 March 2019)

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      • Decision making
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      • Hospital ward

    By Patient Safety Learning, 6 May, 2023

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    • 6 May, 2023

20. Determining acute nurse staffing: a hermeneutic review of an evolving science (30 March 2019)

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      • Mental health
      • Learning disabilities
      • Workload analysis
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    By Patient Safety Learning, 12 April, 2023

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    • 12 April, 2023

21. Recover to rebuild: Investing in the nursing workforce for health system effectiveness (International Council of Nurses, March 2023)

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      • Lack of resources
      • Global health
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Pandemic
      • Secondary impact

    By Patient Safety Learning, 31 March, 2023

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    • 31 March, 2023

22. Roy Lilley eLetter - Helpless (12 December 2022)

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      • Nurse
      • Emergency medicine
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Long waiting list
      • Fatigue / exhaustion

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 13 December, 2022

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    • 13 December, 2022

23. RCN - Striking a balance: patient safety during industrial action (20 July 2022)

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    • Safe staffing
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      • Safe staffing
      • Staff engagement
      • Additional staff required
      • System safety

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 7 October, 2022

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    • 7 October, 2022

24. What difference have safe staffing policies made to hospitals in the NHS? (February 2020)

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      • England
      • Nurse
      • Implementation
      • Wales

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 27 September, 2022

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    • 27 September, 2022

25. Nurse staffing and patient care quality and safety (Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 5 August, 2022

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    • 5 August, 2022