>-- Original Message --
>Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 22:38:32 -0000
>Reply-To: Accident and Emergency Academic List <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Rowley Cottingham <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: See and treat
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>Bad idea Mk 1. Mainly because if you admit and then something goes wrong
>you or your juniors, all busy on the shop floor get called to the 11th
>floor to sort it out.
Not so. We could negotiate to have it so that the patient becomes the responsibility
of in house teams on leaving the ED. We would have to discuss admission
by telephone with medical team and they could opt to insist to see patient
if so wished.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Accident and Emergency Academic List
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brendan Conway
>Sent: 27 November 2002 22:18
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: See and treat
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>We need to work on ways of reducing length of stay of more major
>patients. Surely we should now be moving to A&E registrars and
>consultants having the authority to directly admit patients to wards, as
>in Australia.
>
>This would, more than anything,have an immediate and dramatic effect on
>ED waits, trolley clearance and patient comfort.
>
>Opinions, anyone?
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