Exclusive: National review of schemes to divert patients from A&E amid safety fears NHS officials have ordered a national review of schemes to divert patients away from Accident & Emergency departments, amid fears that desperately-ill cases are being put at risk.
Every NHS trust is under instructions to introduce “front-door streaming” by this autumn, with GPs stationed at casualty units to weed out the least sick patients.
The initiative is part of attempts to relieve hospital overcrowding, and stave off pressures on units across the country.
But an investigation by The Telegraph reveals that a national review of such schemes has been ordered following the death of a man turned away by a pilot scheme. The Daily Telegraph
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