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Evaluating the ten year impact of the Productive Ward at the clinical microsystem level in English acute trusts (NIHR HS&DR)
The 'Productive Ward: Releasing Time to Care' programme was introduced in English NHS acute hospitals in 2007 to give ward staff the tools, skills and time needed to implement local improvements to (1) increase the time nurses spend on direct patient...
Peter Griffiths, NIHR HS&DR - Identifying nurse-staffing requirements using the Safer Nursing Care Tool. Modelling the costs and condequences of real world application to address variation in patient need on hospital wards
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) issued guidance on setting safe nurse staffing levels for hospitals in response to reports into failures in the NHS (including the Mid Staffordshire inquiries) and research showing the impo...
Peter Griffiths, NIHR HS&DR - Nurse staffing levels, missed vital signs observations and mortality in hospital wards: modelling the consequences and costs of variations in nurse staffing and skill mix.
The NHS in England, like many other healthcare systems, is facing intense pressure to maintain the quality and safety of care provided in hospitals at the same or less cost than in previous years. The quality of nursing care - and the potential for i...