This is a secondary driver for the Essentials of Safe Care “Safe clinical and care processes”
Change ideas
- Practitioner: Process for real time staffing risk assessment, escalation and mitigation
- Team: System to identify and support staff working out with their usual area
- Organisation: Forum to review current staffing, outcomes of escalation and mitigation at least twice daily
Tools and resources
- Care Inspectorate, The Hub, Safe Staffing Programme 2024 [2025 Oct 7].
- Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Healthcare Staffing Programme 2025 [2025 Sept 10].
- Dall’Ora C, Saville C, Rubbo B, Turner L, Jones J, Griffiths P. Nurse staffing levels and patient outcomes: a systematic review of longitudinal studies. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 2022. 134, 104311.
- Scottish Government, Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019: Statutory guidance 2024 [2025 Oct 7]. Health and Care Staffing in Scotland | Turas | Learn
- Zaranko B, Sanford NJ, Kelly E, Rafferty AM, Bird J, Mercuri L, et al. Nurse staffing and inpatient mortality in the English National Health Service: a retrospective longitudinal study. BMJ Quality & Safety 2023;32:254-263.
