Safe staffing levels
All hospitals are required to publish information about the number of nursing and midwifery staff working on each ward, together with the percentage of shifts meeting safe staffing guidelines.
This is part of the NHS response to the Francis report which called for greater openness and transparency in the health service.
The information includes details of rostered nurse staffing levels and actual staff levels worked. Full details are reported to public meetings of the Board of Directors.
We also display information on whiteboards for patients and visitors in all of our wards the planned and actual staffing avaialble at the start of every shift.