The impact of changing workforce patterns in UK paediatric intensive care services on staff practice and patient outcomes
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Janet Tucker 1, Gareth Parry 2, Elizabeth Draper 3, Lorna McKee 1, Diane Skatun 1, Nicky Davies 3, Mark Darowski 4.
NHS focus on improving patient care recognises that the staff delivering care are central to quality. Current policy aims to improve patient care by tackling recruitment, retention and training for doctors and nurses and designing new ways of working. However there is little evidence about: best practice in effecting change in new staffing patterns; the impact of change or extended nursing roles on direct patient care in hospital; and that higher levels of nurses in extended roles in care teams results in similar or improved patient outcomes and satisfaction.
The aim of this study is to determine the impact of changing workforce patterns (or who cares for patients) on staff working and patient outcomes.
1 University of Aberdeen
2 University of Sheffield
3 University of Leicester
4 Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust
The UK PICU Staffing Study Group