Efficiency vital to help ease our A&E crisis

IT was recently reported that the number of patients waiting on trollies in our nation’s A&E departments had reached a record high.

This issue can no longer be considered seasonal as these figures reflected the situation over the month of August when admission rates for medical patients are traditionally quiet and therefore we may expect the number of patients on trollies to rise exponentially as the winter months approach.

In the current political and economic environment, the importance of efficiency in the A&E department is not only about patient safety, but also the need to improve quality of care despite diminishing resources.