Mental Health and Learning Disability Inpatient Nurse Staffing Level Tool: July 2025

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Document Type

HSP recommendations

Improvement support

Summary

We recommend to Scottish Ministers the new Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Inpatient Nurse Staffing Level Tool Version 1. This tool will be hosted on the SafeCare platform and will be live from 30 October 2025.

The recommendations paper to Scottish Ministers was produced by the Healthcare Staffing Programme. It outlines the detail of how we undertook the work and the evidence to support the recommendations.

These are technical documents designed to be used by specialist staff. If you need further information on the tools, contact his.hsp@nhs.scot.