John Appleby
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68 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2014
last heard Jan 2015
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It's not like Arthur Bobbin's 10-year-old with a saucepan stuck on his head sort of view of A&E anymore.
It could be an elderly woman with a broken hip, with dementia and diabetes and various other problems and so on.
So more difficult cases.
And more likely to be admitted into hospital.
So whereas across all patients it's about one in five will be admitted into hospital for further treatment as an emergency case.
If you're over 65, it's 50%.
It's an indication of more serious cases.
A&E departments are not isolated.
They're not sort of standalone units without any connection to other parts of the hospital.
So in terms of people getting out of A&E departments and into other parts of the hospital, that depends on what's going on elsewhere.
Have we got more elective patients, i.e.
non-emergency patients, using beds in hospital?
Are beds being, I hate this phrase, but being blocked by patients?
It's known as delayed transfers of care.
We know delayed transfers of care have gone up.
That's going to mean there are fewer beds in other parts of the hospital or there'll be pressure on those beds.
That can back up into the A&E department for those patients who are waiting to get from A&E into a bed in hospital.
Yes, I do.
Again, it's part of the sort of set of factors.
The official figures on delayed transfers of care do try to break down the reasons for those delays.
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