Nurse to patient ratio

Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament

Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang

MP for Nee Soon GRC 

Question No. 6566

To ask the Minister for Health for each year in the past three years, what is the change in the average and median nurse-to-patient ratio for (i) general wards and (ii) intensive care units of the public acute hospitals.

Answer

1                    As shared in an earlier answer in 2022, the average nurse-to-patient ratio for general wards in the public acute hospitals remains unchanged at around one nurse for every four or five patients. In the Intensive Care Units (ICU), the ratio is higher at about one to two nurses for every ICU patient, depending on the complexity of each case.