> -----Original Message-----
> From: Accident and Emergency Academic List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Suzanne Mason
> Sent: 18 March 2009 09:50
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> Subject: Re: Stafford Hospital
>
>
> Maybe I missed something, but what I cannot understand is
> that this was a
> hospital-wide problem, but that the government and press seem to be
> focussing on ED! I know we are an easy target (ha ha), but
> wonder whether
> college should be saying something in our defense? I am
> thoroughly sick of
> being told we are to balme for many of the shortcomings that
> arise as a
> result of pushing patients out of the ED to a silo elsewhere
> within the
> hospital where god knows what happens to them! It is about
> time that the DH
> realised the ED is a SAFE place for many patients to receive
> their treatment
> and that we are the experts in managing the undifferentiated
> patient! Rant
> over...
> Sue Mason
especially as the blame is on management but also on the absence of
properly run Assessment units and acute medicine services.
The 4hour target is classic ZaNuliarbour spin ... I know that you know that
, we as in members of ACAD-ae-,ed and many other listsand sites know that
...
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