Analysis

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Outreach team members

A nurse-led mental health outreach team is working day and night to support a population overshadowed by tragedy

06 Dec 2017
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The emergency department for patients over 80 is expected to be up and running at the end of November and will treat an estimated 18,000 people a ye

22 Nov 2017
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A new report recommends extra investment in advanced clinical practitioners to help address the significant pressures in emergency departments.

26 Oct 2017
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Despite intensive winter planning, doubts remain over how hospitals in England will cope this winter.

20 Sep 2017
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Emergency department staff may experience high rates of anxiety, depression and burnout
15 Aug 2017
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Hospitals expect a major incident plan to be implemented every three years, but following recent events in London and Manchester, such plans have been ac

28 Jun 2017
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A group of cardiac experts and campaigners on the Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest steering group says that not enough is being done to cut the number of people who die following

31 May 2017
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A study carried out by the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation has analysed whether the demand for emergency care of children and young people has changed over the past dec

03 May 2017
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Professor Dame Jessica Corner talks to Nursing Standard
26 Apr 2017
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Emergency departments in England are being told they must start hitting the operational standard within a year.

03 Apr 2017
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111 phone line

Nurses have admitted frustration at the rising number of people who are not seriously ill being directed to emergency departments by NHS 111.

27 Feb 2017
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Ambulance
Major incidents have been declared during January from 40% of hospitals in England, as winter pressures continue to affect EDs
31 Jan 2017
Nurses are being deterred from working in pressured emergency departments (EDs) because of the associated stress, MPs have warned.
24 Nov 2016
Care Quality Commission recently published a report presenting the weaknesses in emergency services.
26 Oct 2016
The annual drive urging nurses and other healthcare staff to have their free flu vaccination is underway, following a fall in numbers last year.
26 Oct 2016
Last winter was the most difficult for emergency departments in England for more than a decade. With little let up over the summer, this one could be even worse.
06 Oct 2016
College makes case to review body
28 Sep 2016
Children attending emergency departments are not having standardised checks on their vital signs
06 Jul 2016

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