May I press the Health Secretary on this point? I have raised several times the point that adequate staffing levels are crucial to patient safety and good care, but we seem to dodge around saying that it is a question of values, not of numbers. Francis said clearly that one of the issues was numbers. I have given examples of my local hospital, which views it as crucial that it has the right staffing mix, which it adjusts every single day, for the patients that it has. Will he stop avoiding this question and address it directly, because one in 10 hospitals do not have adequate staffing levels?
Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Keeley
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 26 March 2013.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
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