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From: "Paul Ransom"
Subject: Re: Nurse led referrals in majors.
> This is not the way forward for Emergency Medicine. I believe we would
> be expanding our roles towards total care of emergency patients that
> come through the door, and many of these will take longer than 4 hours
> to sort.
As a very senior local A&E colleague put it to me the other day, "This whole
four-hour target thing is insulting for emergency medicine, it's implying
that we're just some sort of 'conduit' between 'better' places...as if
nothing good ever happens to a patient while they're under our care".
It does make you think, doesn't it...
AF
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