Acute care

Patients safer on trolleys in wards than in A&E

By 2012-04-19T12:30:00

a patient on a trolley in a corridor

Source: mario beauregard

Patients should be moved to trolleys in ward corridors to wait for a bed to become free rather than wait in overcrowded accident and emergency departments, according to the College of Emergency Medicine.

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