P-06-1276 Extend section 25B of the Nurse Staffing Levels Act (Wales) 2016
P-06-1276 Extend section 25B of the Nurse Staffing Levels Act (Wales) 2016
This
petition was submitted by Richard Jones, having collected a total of 10,572
signatures.
Text of Petition:
Nurses across Wales are
short of 1,719 highly-skilled, life-saving staff members. This means nursing
staff give NHS Wales 34,284 extra hours every single week – and it still isn’t
enough. Research shows that where there are fewer nurses, patients are 26% more
likely to die overall rising to 29% following complicated hospital stays. The
Welsh Government should extend Section 25B of the Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales)
Act 2016 to give the Welsh public the full team of nurses they desperately
need.
Additional Information:
Section 25B of the Nurse
Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016 requires health boards and NHS trusts in Wales
to take all reasonable steps to maintain a specified nurse staffing level. The
nurse staffing level is the number and skill mix of nurses required to provide
sensitive patient care. In addition, health boards and trusts are required to
inform the public of the levels of nursing staff on any ward covered by Section
25B.
When the law was first
passed, Section 25B only applied to acute adult medical and surgical wards. On
1 October 2021, it was extended to children’s wards. We want it to apply in all
settings where nursing care is provided, starting with community nursing and
mental health inpatient wards.
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Status
This petition was
considered completed by the Petitions Committee at its meeting on 17/10/2022.
The Committee considered
the petition and noted how pleased the petitioners were to bring the issues to
a debate in the Senedd and for the strength of feeling among the public and
nursing professionals to be highlighted.
As a result of the debate,
the Committee agreed that they have taken the petition as far as it can and
wished the Royal Collage of Nursing well in their future campaigns and closed
the petition.
Full details of the
consideration of this petition by the Committee and related documents can be seen
on the Meetings tab above.
It was first considered by
the Petitions Committee on 13/06/2022.
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Business type: Petition
Reason considered: Senedd Business;
Status: For consideration
First published: 18/05/2022