1. What evidence-based tool(s) do you use to measure or manage safe nurse/ midwife staffing levels?
2. What indicators do you use to assess safe nurse / midwife staffing levels in your Trust?
Please complete the tables below, adding in the most recent results from your last two Board meetings for those indicators reported at Board level. Please collate any results derived from multiple hospital or acute sites.
2a) Staffing specific indicators
Indicators |
Figures/results from Board meeting 1 |
Figures/results from Board meeting 2 (most recent mtg) |
N/a indicator not used by Trust |
N/a indicator not discussed at last two Trust Board mtgs |
overall average percentage of planned day and night for nursing and care staff in hospital(s) which are filled |
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staff WTE % turnover |
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staff WTE vacancies |
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staff % sickness levels |
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nursing hours per patient day (NHPPD) |
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Other, please specify: |
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2b) Care quality indicators
Indicators |
Figures/results from Board meeting 1 |
Figures/results from Board meeting 2 (most recent mtg) |
N/a indicator not used by Trust |
Summary hospital-level mortality index (SHMI) |
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Hospital standard mortality ratio (HSMR) |
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Bed occupancy rates |
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Readmission rates Readmission rates with related condition Readmission rates with unrelated condition. |
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No. of healthcare associated infections (HCAIs) reported |
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No. of hospital acquired pressure ulcers reported Grade 4 Grade 3 Grade 2 Grade 1 |
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Total No. of falls reported No. of those falls reported which resulted in harm |
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Other quality clinical outcomes reported, please specify: |
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3) Staffing levels
Please answer the following questions?
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Response -
Thank you for your Freedom of information request regarding the management of safe nurse/ midwife staffing levels. unfortunately Rotherham CCG do not hold this information, however you can send your request direct to our providers The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust at http://www.rotherhamhospital.nhs.uk/freedomofinformation/ and Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber
https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/support-and-advice/information-governance/freedom-of-information/.