The Health Secretary Wes Streeting today told Channel 4 News that he will “look at” publishing crucial nurse staffing data uncovered by a major FactCheck investigation, NurseCheck .

After a ten-month battle with NHS England, FactCheck obtained over 100,000 secret NHS files that show the true extent of nursing shortages nationwide.

These files use the “nurse fill rate” metric to compare the number of nurses that hospitals planned for with the number who were actually on shift across England.

Our analysis of these files revealed that a third of acute hospitals were short at least one in ten of the nurses they planned to have on wards – a level of staffing which experts believe to be a cause for concern, and raise the risk of patient harm or death. We found particular gaps in neo-natal

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