C1Part I Organisation
F1Staffing
Ss. 12IA-12IO and cross-heading inserted (15.5.2023 for specified purposes, 6.2.2024 for specified purposes, 1.4.2024 for specified purposes) by Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 6), ss. 4(2), 15(2); S.S.I. 2023/131, reg. 2, sch.; S.S.I. 2024/20, reg. 2(1)(2)
C2C5C4C312IADuty to ensure appropriate staffing
1
It is the duty of every Health Board and the Agency to ensure that at all times suitably qualified and competent individuals, from such a range of professional disciplines as necessary, are working in such numbers as are appropriate for—
a
the health, wellbeing and safety of patients,
b
the provision of safe and high-quality health care, and
c
in so far as it affects either of those matters, the wellbeing of staff.
2
In determining what, in a particular kind of health care provision, constitutes appropriate numbers for the purposes of subsection (1), regard is to be had to—
a
the nature of the particular kind of health care provision,
b
the local context in which it is being provided,
c
the number of patients being provided it,
d
the needs of patients being provided it, and
e
appropriate clinical advice.
Pt. 1 applied (7.12.2019) by The Public Health Scotland Order 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/336), art. 1(2), sch. 1 Pt. 1 (with art. 4(4)(5))