Jane Cummings is the Chief Nursing Officer, formerly at the Department of Health and now at NHS England In November 2013 she was interviewed about the demand for safe staffing levels in NHS hospitals and told ITV Daybreak: "The most important thing to do is to use evidence to determine what the staffing levels should be. "It's actually quite dangerous to to [sic] suggest that there must be a particular minimum and what we really need to do is to look at the needs of the patients on a particular ward or service and that will vary.". She was centrally involved in the response to the Francis Report on the Stafford Hospital scandal which requires NHS trusts to review and publish their staffing levels at ward level. She has been at the forefront of efforts to defend the nursing profession in th