Fig. 2.

Nursing skill mix distribution at study ICUs between 1st December 2021 and 11th April 2022. Over the study period which began during a period of high demand for ICU beds due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a decline in the number and proportion of the ICU nursing workforce who were redeployed nurses from areas outside ICU (light purple) or staff without critical care experience (dark purple). ICU, intensive care unit. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article.)