title: Chief Nurse responds to safe staffing concerns.
abstract: England's chief nurse Jane Cummings has written to directors of nursing to address what she describes as 'misconceptions' about news that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is shelving its programme of work on safe nurse staffing guidelines.
authors.forename: Sally
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gillen
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D061214:Patient Safety; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom