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NHS needs more doctors, not targets |
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Saturday, 26 June 2010 |
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Targets pushed A&E doctors to speed-consult and were unsafe. To see more patients we need more staff on the shop floor. The government is right to scrap waiting-time targets in the NHS, but we need more staff on the shop floor. I want to abolish a management myth. Although only a mere A&E doctor, I do actually have an awareness of time. It is an essential element within patient care, drummed in from early student days. Time is the enemy. Any delay in treatment is not in the best interest of the patient, whatever the reason, whatever the speciality. In the worst case, it can also be a killer.Read more.... |
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Planned A&E closures 'misguided' |
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Monday, 21 June 2010 |
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 Doctors working in accident and emergency say plans to downgrade some services are based on flawed evidence.
The College of Emergency medicine says it's wrong to assume that most patients coming to A&E can be seen elsewhere. They say investment in separate walk-in and urgent care centres is misguided and wasteful. Read full article.. |
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