PERFORMANCE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust only saw 90.8 per cent of patients in accident and emergency within fours hours during January, against a target of 95 per cent.
A report to the board said the “main contributing factor has been availability of beds affecting throughput in A&E, and continuing high levels of emergency admissions”.
28 February 2012
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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A nursing academy designed to attract and retain students with “exceptional academic ability” to improve patient safety is being launched at Exeter University in collaboration with local NHS trusts.
Consultants at a rural acute and community trust have raised fears services will be moved to another provider under a potential shared leadership model.
Consultants at an acute and community trust have attempted to block the medical director’s potential bid to become chief executive amid allegations of bullying and intimidation.
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