Last night was a fantastic
chat on Twitter with @WeNurses
and @6CsLive on recent guidance
published by the National
Quality Board for safer staffing levels.
This guidance
was also a key topic at our regular NHS England Area Team Directors of Nursing
meeting today. We had a frank and open
conversation about the challenge of implementing the guidance in the current
financial climate whilst being open with patients & public.
I left the meeting enthused that providers and commissioners
can work together to make this effective, but it won’t be easy. The ten principles of the guidance
are shown below.
