Nursing is facing substantial workforce challenges. While the gap between planned staffing and actual staffing has reduced, at no point has NHS Scotland employed the number of nursing staff needed to deliver safe and effective care (...
We are delighted that we have reached one of our key milestones for 2024, with a newly linked dataset and commencing administrative data research on factors affecting the retention and progression of the nursing and midwifery professions.
Last month we hosted an event in London to bring together key stakeholders involved in our Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) project, in order to realise the full potential of data for nursing and midwives.
SCADR have been working with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the Office for National Statistics, to enable nursing and midwifery registrant data to be made available for research for the first time via the ONS Secure Research Service.
This week our health and social care research lead, Iain Atherton, talks about the research we are developing using nursing data and, importantly, what this can enable.
