Dad to 4 amazing kids. Ok runner, poor triathlete! Emergency Physician & Clinical Director of Emergency Care. Thinks. Tries.Personal views
Mar 1, 2019 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
1. Potentially controversial and unpopular (and long)view alert!
Take as a given that I think the 4 hour target has on balance been good for patients and A&E. It was necessary in 2004 to create some leverage on whole acute systems.
2. They complacently would allow long backlogs to occur in A&Es which were both unsafe and a poor patient experience.
It did that pretty well for almost 10 years while resource to achieve it was somewhere close to what its delivery needed.
