Workforce

New staffing metric 'may lead to unsafe nursing levels'

By 2016-02-05T00:01:00

Workforce

A new headline staffing metric proposed by Lord Carter – which will mix nurse and healthcare assistant numbers – could result in hospitals reducing nursing to unsafe levels, workforce experts have told HSJ.

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