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Study Finds Scottish Safe Staffing Act Implementation Facing Challenges

A new study, from Penn Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR), published in the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, has revealed that implementing Scotland's Health and Care Act 2019 is facing significant challenges. The Act, which aims to ensure safe nurse staffing through guiding principles, duties, and a common staffing method, is not being consistently followed, according to nurses on the frontlines. Scotland's approach to improving nurse staffing differs from that of most countries or states, which have established minimum ratios or nurse staffing committees. This makes the Scotland Act a unique exemplar worthy of investigation.

May 15, 2025


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