Imagine working in an NHS organisation that enforces a 70:30
split between registered and unregistered staff, and that ensures
ward sisters and those in similar roles are wholly supervisory; where
hospital managers guarantee there will be between 1.25 and 1.8
nurses per bed. Well, this is exactly what is being promised by the
fi ve NHS trusts in Northern Ireland, as you can discover by reading
a feature in this week’s Nursing Standard.