Part 2Health service bodies
Chapter 4Miscellaneous
F1Nurse staffing levels
25BDuty to calculate and take steps to maintain nurse staffing levels
(1)
Where a Local Health Board or NHS Trust in Wales provides nursing services in a situation to which this section applies, it must—
(a)
designate a person or a description of person to calculate the number of nurses appropriate to provide care to patients that meets all reasonable requirements in that situation (the “nurse staffing level”),
(b)
take all reasonable steps to maintain the nurse staffing level, and
(c)
make arrangements for the purpose of informing patients of the nurse staffing level.
(2)
A person designated by virtue of subsection (1)(a) (“a designated person”) must calculate the nurse staffing level in accordance with section 25C.
(3)
This section applies to the following situations—
(a)
adult acute medical inpatient wards,
(b)
adult acute surgical inpatient wards, and
(c)
such other situations as the Welsh Ministers may by regulations specify.