The Department of Health (2001) has recommended that emergency departments (EDs) in England introduce patient-streaming systems to manage patient flow and reduce...
Overcrowding due to poor patient flow increases risk for more than 500,000 patients a year (College of Emergency Medicine (CEM) 2014) and is linked to increased...
In November 2015 it became apparent that a person with dementia’s journey through the acute hospital was not always as streamlined as it should have been. There was...