Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Andrew George (Liberal Democrat), on Tuesday, 13 January 2015, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 32 members in total.

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SAFE STAFFING ON HOSPITAL WARDS

That this House welcomes the Safe Staffing Alliance Manifesto which emphasises that patient safety is compromised significantly when the ratio of eight patients to each registered nurse, excluding the nurse in charge, is breached, and that even the ratio of seven patients to each registered nurse results in care being missed; notes its recommendation that safe nurse/patient ratios should be enforced and its finding that 45 per cent of hospital wards have unsafe staff levels; acknowledges that poor care does not only cost more, but causes more complications and deaths; and therefore calls on the Government to implement a transparent fundamental standard which should ensure that each hospital ward is staffed safely and never reaches the unsafe ratio of 1:8.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

687 

Session

2014-15

Other sponsors

Peter Bottomley

Kelvin Hopkins

Ronnie Campbell

Jim Shannon

David Simpson

Subjects

Health services Health professions

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk