Health ministry promoting bill to solve hospital staffing issues

The health ministry is promoting a new bill to alter the nurses-to-patients ratio, which it hopes will deal with the staffing in state hospitals, by increasing the number of patients nurses have under their care at any given time.

Currently in the surgical, pathology, geriatrics and midwifery wards there is one nurse per five patients during the morning shift, one per six in the afternoon and one per eight overnight....