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> From: Accident and Emergency Academic List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Helen Deborah Vecht
> Sent: 06 April 2005 23:48
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> Subject: Re: One an hour
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> Adrian Fogarty <[log in to unmask]>typed
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> > I remember BAEM used to quote 2 per hour in The Way Ahead a
> few years
> > back, but I don't know if they've revised this figure in the latest
> > version. I know our docs are only managing around 1.7 to
> 1.8 per hour
> > when I recently checked this.
>
>
> Ummm...
>
> Who sees the 'quickie minors' nowadays? Nurse practitioners?
> SHOs? SpRs?
>
> How many patients do they see per shift?
>
> It strikes me that if ENPs are seeing the 'quicker' patients,
> SHOs may seem slow due to sampling change.
>
> I remember an 8-hour shift when I saw 56 patients, as an SHO (early
> 1980s) but apart from a couple of dislocated shoulders there
> wasn't much...
A very very valid point
Also far less 'bitty' patient interaction in current climate
In that patients temd to appear before the docotr, analgesed
/investigated / cannualted / x rayed ?
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