NHS safe staffing: not just a number

"The greatest running cost of the NHS is its workforce. The authors show how this aspect of the NHS can too easily be neglected in the policy process, or discussed only in the context of concerns for costs of the NHS payroll...We try to identify some of the potential clinical and financial benefits from more robust workforce data, and the barriers that limit progress towards the adoption of digital technology for the closely linked tasks of rostering, payment, and quality assurance."

NHS safe staffing: not just a number
Tony Hockley, Sean Boyle
London School of Economics and Political Science
January 2014

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