Improving patient flow across organisations and pathways

"This scan compiled research about the methods used to improve patient flow across organisations or pathways."

Improving patient flow across organisations and pathways
D de Silva
The Health Foundation
November 2013

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Urgent and emergency services

"Growing demand on A&E departments will make them unsustainable if effective action is not taken quickly to relieve the pressures on them."

Urgent and emergency services
House of Commons Health Committee
July 2013

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Improving patient flow

"The Health Foundation created the Flow Cost Quality improvement programme to focus on the relationship between patient flow, costs and outcomes in two NHS hospital trusts: South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust."

Improving patient flow: learning report
The Health Foundation
April 2013

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Case studies available here.

Waiting management at the emergency department

"To manage non-acceptable waiting is a driving force behind much of the staff behavior at an Emergency Department."

Waiting management at the emergency department - a grounded theory study
L Burstrom, B Starrin, ML Engstrom, H Thulesius
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:95

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