Act to improve patient safety, staffing & accountability in NHS hospitals

Background

We want Government to ensure the introduction and enforcement of minimum safe staffing levels in NHS hospitals, strengthen accountability for poor patient care and set up a review of discharge practices.

Additional details

We also want the Government to require the use of monitored safeguarding measures on wards caring for vulnerable patients. We hear of many patients, particularly elderly & vulnerable people, who experience unacceptable standards of care in NHS hospitals; patients left without basic dignity due to staff shortages; important medical notes not read or followed; & patients handled in ways that risk further injury; as well as concerns about patients being discharged too early due to pressure on hospital beds. We believe these systemic problems require Government action.

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