--- Adrian Fogarty <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Cartwright"
> Notwithstanding Goat's problem over definition of
> admission, I assume the
> above fudging of "trolley waits" will now be
> consigned to history. The Audit
> Commission report foregoes this definition, and
> replaces it with the "wait
> for admission" which it defines simply as the "time
> from arrival in A&E to
> admission to a hospital bed". The commission states
> that the "wait for
> admission" will supesede the "trolley wait" in the
> NHS plan. This "wait for
> admission" will naturally include the "wait to see a
> doctor", but also the
> diagnosis time, the referral time and the admission
> time (only the latter
> being roughly equivalent to the old "trolley wait").
> Good news for us I
> think...
>
I suspect that we will see a similar redefining of
admission to include being put in a specific area of
A&E as their next "solution".
Cheers Fred.
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