Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 25A-25E and cross-headings inserted (3.8.2016 for the insertion of s. 25D, 6.4.2017 for the insertion of s. 25A, 6.4.2018 in so far as not already in force) by Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 5), ss. 1(1), 2(1); S.I. 2016/829, art. 2(a)(b)(c)
(1)Each Local Health Board and any NHS Trust to which the duty in section 25B applies must submit a nurse staffing levels report (whether or not as part of a wider report) in accordance with this section.
(2)A nurse staffing levels report must set out, in respect of the period to which the report relates (the “reporting period”)—
(a)the extent to which nurse staffing levels have been maintained;
(b)the impact the Board or Trust considers that not maintaining nurse staffing levels has had on care provided to patients by nurses, for example by reference to complaints about care provided to patients by nurses made in accordance with the Complaints Regulations or by reference to an increase in incidents of harm caused by—
(i)errors in administering medication to patients;
(ii)patients falling;
(iii)patients developing hospital-acquired pressure ulcers;
(c)any actions taken in response to not maintaining nurse staffing levels.
(3)Each nurse staffing levels report must be submitted to the Welsh Ministers no later than 30 days after the last day of the reporting period.
(4)The Welsh Ministers must, after the expiry of each reporting period—
(a)prepare and publish a document summarising the content of the nurse staffing levels reports submitted in respect of that reporting period, and
(b)lay each report submitted to them in that period before the National Assembly for Wales.
(5)For the purposes of this section the reporting period is—
(a)in the case of the initial reporting period, the period of three years beginning with the commencement of this section, and
(b)in the case of all subsequent reporting periods, the period of three years beginning with the day after the last day of the preceding reporting period.
(6)In subsection (2)(b) “Complaints Regulations” means regulations made under—
(a)section 113 of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c.43);
(b)the NHS Redress (Wales) Measure 2008 (nawm 1).]