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Hospitals ‘needlessly increasing nurse numbers’

By 2025-12-09T05:15:00

Glen Burley

A widely used tool for estimating “safe” levels of nursing is leading to unnecessarily inflated staffing and costs in some hospitals, an NHS England director has suggested.

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