Thursday 4 October 2018

Changes to staffing patterns at A&E could improve viability of smaller hospitals, research suggests

Changes to staffing patterns at A&E could improve viability of smaller hospitals, research suggests Improving A&E triage processes, encouraging groups of clinicians to pool their capacity at the hospital ‘front door’ and ending the practice of separating out services like ambulatory care units could be essential measures to shore up smaller hospitals, researchers argue today.

These recommendations come in a new Nuffield Trust report looking at the ways in which hospitals serving between 140,000 and 300,000 people run medical services for acutely ill patients.

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