Replacing professionally qualified nurses with lower skilled nursing assistants is linked to a heightened risk of patient death, as well as other indicators of poor quality care, reveals a large ...

Some standard acute trusts employ proportionately nearly twice as many clinical support staff - mainly healthcare assistants - in relation to registered nurses as other trusts. The figures also show ...

The shortages of mental health nurses in hospital settings in England are impacting patient care and have led to a greater reliance on support staff, a new review has found. The ‘mental health 360’ ...