Understaffed/overstaffed patient shifts and costs by temporary staff availability for different baseline staffing levels
| Baseline staffing | Low | Standard | High | Low | Standard | High | Low | Standard | High | Low | Standard | High |
| Flexible staffing option | Patient shifts | Understaffed patient shifts | Overstaffed patient shifts | Cost per patient-day | ||||||||
| n | n | n | % | % | % | % | % | % | £ | £ | £ | |
| Unlimited availability | 2 924 099 | 2 923 561 | 2 923 896 | 17.1 | 8.0 | 4.4 | 0.7 | 4.5 | 9.9 | 145 | 147 | 152 |
| Higher availability | 2 923 631 | 2 924 193 | 2 923 489 | 41.1 | 18.2 | 11.5 | 0.7 | 4.4 | 9.9 | 135 | 142 | 148 |
| Empirical availability | 2 924 006 | 2 923 614 | 2 924 087 | 65.4 | 31.8 | 21.2 | 0.7 | 4.4 | 9.9 | 120 | 135 | 142 |
| No temporary staff or redeployments | 2 923 940 | 2 923 668 | 2 923 786 | 86.0 | 46.6 | 33.8 | 1.0 | 5.8 | 12.4 | 100 | 124 | 135 |
Calculated from average results across 10 runs of the simulation model for each hospital.