Clinician productivity depends largely on conditions provided. This blog explains why patients per hour is the last question you should ask and not the first.
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How many patients should we see per hour? Read More
Emergency Department crowding is hard to explain to non-clinical audiences. A cognitive bridge is a three-step tool to help others understand.
Explaining Emergency Department Crowding Using a Cognitive Bridge Read More
NHS England’s Model Emergency Department guidance asks trusts to include demand and capacity modelling in implementation plans. But that is harder than it sounds. Much of future emergency care demand comes from residual factors such as technology, supply-induced demand and access barriers, which traditional modelling often misses.
Model Emergency Department, Capacity and Demand Read More
If you have worked an ED shift over the last year, you will almost certainly have faced this dilemma: an ambulance crew arrives with an elderly, frail, confused patient who
Making Sense of the Latest Corridor Care Update: Red Lines and Resources Read More
Patients are consulting AI more and more before attending ED. What does the research say, and how should clinicians respond? Some great advice on what to do when this happens.
Your Patient Already Asked ChatGPT Read More
The NHS drowns in innovation whilst repair work goes unsupported. Why Bronson’s Design as Repair framework matters for emergency medicine.
Design as repair: what Emergency Medicine can learn (and why it is so hard) Read More
From St Emlyn’s journal club: are we overtreating sepsis? US study finds 87% received unnecessary or overly broad antibiotics in ED.
JC: Are we overtreating suspected sepsis with broad-spectrum antibiotics? Read More
How we transformed emergency medicine by 2038: AI, virtual EDs, and culture change. A powerful retrospective for healthcare leaders.
Looking Back from 2038: How We Fixed Emergency Medicine Read More
