Mike Hedges AM welcomes
the Nurse Staffing Act which will be implemented from 6th April
The
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act will be implemented in full from 6th April 2018, the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social
Services announced.
Mike
Hedges AM said…. ‘I am pleased that this Act is now in force. It will a set new
standard for Welsh Hospitals, where there will be minimum numbers of nurses required
to be on duty. This will give reassurance to patients and their families. It is
a sign of the Wales Labour Government’s commitment to continue to raise the
standard of patient care within the Welsh NHS.
The
Act places a duty on health boards and NHS Trusts to take steps to calculate
and maintain nurse staffing levels in adult acute medical and surgical
inpatient wards, as well as a broader duty to consider how many nurses are
necessary to provide care for patients sensitively in all settings.
It
also ensures that the NHS more widely recognises the professional judgement of
nurses in identifying the needs of their patients, and supports nurses from
ward to board to have the necessary and sometimes difficult conversations about
the resource needs of their patients based on those needs.
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