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A system under pressure

Author(s) -

Ed Smith,

Sunil Dasan

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

british journal of hospital medicine

Language(s) - Uncategorized

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.196

H-Index - 28

eISSN - 1759-7390

pISSN - 1750-8460

DOI - 10.12968/hmed.2018.79.9.495

Subject(s) - medicine , workforce , attendance , specialty , emergency department , medical emergency , family medicine , nursing , economics , economic growth

Activity levels within emergency medicine, and the pressures experienced by individual clinicians working within the specialty, continue to increase year on year. In 2016-17 there were 18 691 546 attendances at UK emergency departments. Attendance numbers continue to increase annually, patients are becoming older and more unwell, departments are more crowded and as a result, emergency care standard performance figures are deteriorating. This article describes the impact of this pressure on the staff working within the emergency department and begins to explore the potential for the development of sustainability within the existing and future workforce.

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