• Health Serv J · Dec 1997

    Managing admissions. Bed spreads.

    • C Morgan and L Vaughan.
    • Leicester General Hospital Trust.
    • Health Serv J. 1997 Dec 11;107(5583):28-9.

    AbstractA decrease in surgical beds left a trust insufficient flexibility to increase an already high throughput without affecting the quality of care. Changes in the management of surgical admissions, including the appointment of an admissions co-ordinator, have improved co-ordination of elective and emergency admissions. Three years later maximum waiting times had fallen from 18 to 10 months. In the first nine months of the new booking system, the number of operations cancelled on the day because of bed nonavailability fell by half, while patients cancelled on the day of admission dropped by 36 per cent.

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