Reforming emergency care: what GPS really want
Liz Lees Consultant nurse in acute medicine, Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Teaching Trust
Lois Houlders Sister in the emergency assessment area, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
LIZ LEES and LOIS HOULDERS discuss ways of improving access, information and alternatives to secondary care
The Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Teaching Trust implemented a nurse led GP referral service at the Birmingham Heartlands Hospital emergency assessment area (EAA) in February 2002 (Lees 2003, Lees and Dyer 2002).
Emergency Nurse.
11, 9, 22-26.
doi: 10.7748/en2004.02.11.9.22.c1144
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