Hospitals told to allow specialist teams outside ED review patients suffering delays
The RCPI’s Institute of Medicine, which is responsible for training more than 500 medical doctors in hospitals, has threatened to remove accreditation from any hospital where senior house officers are evaluating patients before they are seen in the ED, The Irish Times reported on Wednesday.
“Significant concerns remain regarding the degree of overcrowding in our emergency departments. Given the numbers of presentations, this remains a patient safety risk for patients in our hospitals nationally,” Dr Henry says in the letter. ED patients continue to be “trolley cases” regardless of whether they are seen by ED staff or doctors from the rest of the hospital, according to David Menzies, an emergency medicine consultant at St Vincent’s hospital and associate professor at UCD’s school of medicine.
“If a medical doctor sees the patient first, that doesn’t change the metric of when they are/aren’t waiting for a bed.”
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