Patients in hospitals should be tagged with 'homing beacons' to stop them being lost in 'chaotic' wards, King's Fund and Royal College say All hospital patients should be tagged with homing beacons to prevent staff losing track of them on busy and chaotic NHS wards, experts have said.
The author of a new King’s Fund report said doctors and nurses waste “extraordinary” amounts of time trying to locate patients when they should be treating them.
Michael Wise, a clinician who spent months as an acute NHS patient, called on the health service to adopt tracking technologies such as those used in hospitals in Asia. The Daily Telegraph
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