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Professional judgement – provided by community nursing leaders to ensure local operational factors are fully considered.
This triangulated approach provides assurance that workforce decisions are informed by a broad range of quality, safety and operational evidence rather than relying solely on the numerical outputs of the CNSST.
In this document provides a comprehensive set of guidelines on workforce planning and includes recommendations on reporting and governance approaches. It also shares best practice on workforce decision-making, including stronger board engagement. NHS providers are assessed against their compliance with the recommendations in this guidance to support a consistent approach to workforce decision-making.
Developing workforce safeguards
Developing workforce safeguards – appendices
NHS Improvement (2018). Developing Workforce Safeguards. Supporting providers to deliver high quality care through safe and effective staffing. London. NHSI
This guidance sets out the National Quality Board's 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.
Supporting NHS providers to deliver the right staff, with the right skills, in the right place at the right time: safe, sustainable and productive staffing – July 2016
This guidance should also be referred to when using our setting-specific safe staffing improvement resources.
NQB's guidance states that providers:
must deploy sufficient suitably qualified, competent, skilled and experienced staff to meet care and treatment needs safely and effectively.