23+ hours! Is your chief exec still in a job? Bet he had a difficult time from
SHA.
Does anyone have an "internal" major incident plan when they have complete access block and when the rubber walls of the ED will stretch no more? Has anyone activated it yet and got some in-patient specialties discharging patients who are waiting for tto's to be written and serum rhubarbs to come back prior to discharge.
We now expand into the orthopaedic clinic area occasionally and sit our minors next to the waiting list initiative orthopaedic clinic patients (where the staff seem relaxed and stress free).
Andy
On 13 Oct 2010, at 13:53, "Prescott Mark (RLZ)" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Similar situation here - been brewing since August but much worse for
> the last month. Our record to date is patient here for 23+hrs.
> We now no longer are an Emergency Department - instead we have become a
> medical ward.
> Given that we are a small department we struggle when we are treated as
> if we have rubber walls
> The patients are both sick, complex and elderly
> Mark P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Accident and Emergency Academic List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of S M Mason
> Sent: 13 October 2010 13:29
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: busy times in the ED?
>
> Dear All
> Am just putting this out to see whether you are also experiencing
> unusually busy
> times in your ED? We have noticed a fairly dramatic increase in our
> workload
> which is leaving us struggling for space and virutally no bed access. I
> am
> expecting that other EDs have had the same, but would be interested to
> hear
> from you?
> Thanks and Best Wishes
> Suzanne Mason
> Professor of emergency medicine
> University of Sheffield
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