Supporting NHS Providers to deliver the right staff, with the right skills, in the right place at the right time - National Quality Board

The National Quality Board’s 2013 guidance, How to ensure the right people, with the right skills, are in the right place at the right time: A guide to nursing, midwifery and care staffing capacity and capability, focused on supporting NHS provider boards to achieve safe nursing and midwifery care staffing. If we are to achieve the Five Year Forward View’s ambitions,18 19 the principles contained in this guidance now need to apply to nursing and midwifery staff and the broader multiprofessional workforce in a range of care settings, and do so in a way that optimises productivity and efficiency while maintaining the focus on improving quality.

This document includes an updated set of NQB expectations for nursing and midwifery staffing to help NHS provider boards make local decisions that will deliver high quality care for patients within the available staffing resource. In preparing this document we spent time talking with and listening to directors of nursing and chief nurses (in both provider and commissioner organisations) and to other key stakeholders, at local meetings, national events and via correspondence, to understand the impact of the previous safe staffing improvement resource, and to share ideas and early drafts of this document. This engagement and the feedback received were important for testing and ensuring that this updated document continues to provide a helpful framework for NHS provider boards when they are reviewing staffing and making decisions. 
 
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