Open AccessMany small steps to reducing length of stay: A visit to the DH pilot enhanced recovery scheme
Author(s) -
Matthew Worrall
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
bulletin of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1478-7075
pISSN - 1473-6357
DOI - 10.1308/147363510x525143
Subject(s) - marketing buzz , witness , nursing , medicine , service (business) , scheme (mathematics) , operations management , business , political science , engineering , advertising , law , marketing , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Enhanced recovery (ER) is one of the current buzz terms in the health service but it seems to mean a different thing depending on to whom you speak. The Department of Health (DH) invited applications from acute trusts across England to become 'innovation sites' for the enhanced recovery programme. These sites are supported by DH as they implement a defined programme that aims to improve patient experience through shorter hospital stays. The Bulletin spent a day at one of them, West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, to witness the changes made.