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Emergency Services and Acute Medicine

Written by Head of Operations

This division brings together A&E and medicine including Cardiology, Respiratory, Gastroenterology, Acute Medicine and Care of the Elderly/ Stroke Medicine.

Part of the reason for this is the large number of medical patients that get admitted via A&E, around 70%. By combining these areas we hope to improve the patient pathway by allowing the teams to work together.

This is hugely important due to the pressure we are under to reduce unscheduled care, but gives us a huge opportunity to create significant improvements in the patient pathway from admission right through to discharge.

Clearly, there will be some overlap with Ambulatory Medicine as much of this work of is on an out-patient basis. I hope the new division will allow us to work better as a team, which includes managers, nursing staff and allied health support.