At the moment, the RCN warns, staffing levels are at such a crisis point that patients’ lives are being put in jeopardy. Wales passed a safe staffing law back in 2016. This means that England, is the last part of the UK with no safe staffing level set in law – and without a safe staffing level more patients die! NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) does not recommend a safe staffing ratio between patients and nurses. ‘The emphasis should be on safe patient care not the number of available staff.’RCN leader Donna Kinnair yesterday demanded tougher rules on safe staffing be introduced immediately to save patients lives.