NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE SAFE STAFFING GUIDELINE SCOPE Guideline title

guideline on safe and cost-effective nursing staffing of accident and emergency departments (A&Es). 3. The Francis report on Mid Staffordshire and the Berwick report on improving the safety of patients in England both identified NICE as a lead organisation in developing advice on NHS staffing levels. The Berwick report stated: ‘NICE should interrogate the available evidence for establishing what all types of NHS services require in terms of staff numbers and skill mix to ensure safe, high quality care for patients’. 4. The need for guidelines on safe staffing was also highlighted in a number of recent reports produced in response: National Quality Board (2013) How to ensure the right people, with the right skills, are in the right place at the right time – a guide to nursing, midwifery and care staffing capacity and capability Department of Health (2013) Hard truths: the journey to putting patients firs