I don't entirely understand your option 2.
....but would ask why it's not acceptable?
It really would be helpful to have access to at least a transcript of
Cliff's presentation.
Anyone?
Goat
On 01/12/2013 19:05, McCormick Simon Dr, Consultant, A&E wrote:
> Cliff talked about demand management and suggested that experts who work in the real world (not politicians) have effectively decided there are three approaches available:
>
> 1) Charge for the service and thus reduce the demand (not really possible with the NHS)
>
> 2) Accept that queues form but make them orderly (again, not acceptable in the NHS in the current climate)
>
> 3) Increase capacity to deal with the demand...I think we all know the problem with that BUT it is the only option open to the NHS.
>
> So, not a dirty word just the solutions suggested don't work and the ones that do aren't ones the politicians are prepared (or maybe able) to deliver.
>
> Simon
>
>
> "Hospitals with overcrowded Emergency Departments are overcrowded hospitals that have chosen to manifest the overcrowding in a single location"
> Full Capacity protocol: an end to double standards in acute hospital care provision Emerg Med J 2011;28:547-549
>
>
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> Subject: Re: winter pressures?
>
> I think winter pressures funding is being used locally to trial extra
> consultant shifts at nights and weekends at premium rates. The rates
> offered are sufficiently attractive to fill (almost) all the shifts from
> within the ranks of in-house consultants.
>
> I guess having additional senior medical staffing OOH for a few weeks
> will help.....
> Help to mask the real problem of a wide front door and narrow back door,
> that is.
> If it appears to help - more of the same will become expected.
>
> I won't bore you all with my usual rant about throwing scarce, expensive
> resource at the wrong problem. Ooops - I just did.
>
> Goat
>
> ps: is "demandmanagement" a dirty word then? Apologies for any offence
> caused.
>
> On 28/11/2013 14:19, Suzanne Mason wrote:
>> Dear All
>> I am looking for information / examples of how hospitals are dealing with the pending winter crisis - or whether they are burying their heads? I am interested in examples of where elective work has or is planned to be moved into the provates sector for a period and where the money from the DH is going - are there examples of where extra resources or staff are being delivered? Any help from you guys would be appreciated!
>> Thanks
>> Sue
>>
>> Suzanne Mason
>> Professor of Emergency Medicine
>> EMRiS Group
>> School of Health and Related Research
>> University of Sheffield
>>
>> Tel: 0114 2220694
>> 0114 2714972 (NHS Secretary: Jill Bishop)
>>
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