Emergency Department Management

Evidence from academic studies, professional bodies, coroners, NHS trusts and patient-safety investigators increasingly links corridor care and prolonged emergency department boarding with avoidable harm. Stevan Bruijns asks whether the evidence now warrants a formal public inquiry.

Can ambient AI scribes ease documentation in the emergency department? This appraisal examines who used the tools, the reported time savings and gaps in evidence about note quality, then considers how the clinical environment should shape any local pilot.

Why is it so difficult to build an emergency department rota that meets weekend demand? Stevan Bruijns explores full-time and part-time staffing, the separation of substantive, locum and longer-term costs, and what a more complete workforce business case should consider.

Clinician productivity depends on the conditions in which teams work. This article challenges the use of patients-per-hour targets in isolation and explores how space, staffing, diagnostics and crowding should shape the conversation about emergency department performance.

Emergency Department crowding is hard to explain to non-clinical audiences. A cognitive bridge is a three-step tool to help others understand.

A review of the 2026 AHA/ACC multi-society guideline on acute pulmonary embolism, covering its A–E clinical categories, diagnostic approach, treatment and follow-up. The article considers the changes alongside UK practice and explains where the author sees their greatest relevance.