Delayed A&E assessment due to insufficient inpatient bed capacity

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• 2020 → 2021Martin Gibbons8 months after Joseph Cheetham · same coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.86 · high

  Closely relatedConfidence 0.86 · high

  Both reports describe excessive time spent in the Emergency Department because of insufficient inpatient bed capacity. The earlier case involved general acute bed shortages; the later case involved a shortage of mental health beds.

  Joseph Cheetham · 30 Sept 2020

  “Lack of bed capacity in the hospital meant that he spent over 24 hours in the A and E department despite being frail and vulnerable.”

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  Martin Gibbons · 21 May 2021

  “It was during the prolonged wait in the Emergency Department for a mental health bed that Mr [name redacted] left.”

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  Stated action in the response to the earlier report

  “All localities within GM are now in the process of implementing these. In addition to this, further work is being undertaken to help reduce the numbers of attendances to emergency departments. As highlighted in previous correspondence, GM has agreed to a new approach which will incorporate two elements: - Implementation of the new national NHS 111 First Initiative, which will ask patients to call 111 prior to attending an Emergency Department - A new pre-Emergency Department triage and streaming”

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