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. |
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