Emergency medicine

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1. The mythbuster: Policy-based evidence is deadly (HSJ, 20 April 2026)

   • Emergency medicine
   • Leadership
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Emergency medicine
     • Leadership
     • Lack of resources
     • Policies

   By Patient Safety Learning, 1 May

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   • 1 May

2. Corridor care and long waits: what are people experiencing in A&E? (Healthwatch, 11 February 2026)

   • Accident and Emergency
   • Hospital corridor
   • (and 5 more)

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     • Accident and Emergency
     • Hospital corridor
     • Lack of resources
     • Patient suffering
     • Patient harmed
     • Organisation / service factors
     • Older People (over 65)

   By Patient Safety Learning, 12 February

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   • 12 February

3. The Model Emergency Department: high performing urgent and emergency care pathways (NHS England, 9 February 2026)

   • Emergency medicine
   • Accident and Emergency
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Emergency medicine
     • Accident and Emergency
     • Organisation / service factors
     • Care coordination

   By Patient Safety Learning, 10 February

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   • 10 February

4. Nuffield Trust: The changing terrain of mental health in A&E: specialised care or the same old bottlenecks? (28 January 2026)

   • Accident and Emergency
   • Emergency medicine
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Accident and Emergency
     • Emergency medicine
     • Mental health
     • Organisation / service factors

   By Patient Safety Learning, 28 January

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   • 28 January

5. NHS England case study: Accessing community public access defibrillators (CPADs)

   • Emergency medicine
   • Communication problems
   • (and 4 more)

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     • Emergency medicine
     • Communication problems
     • Community care
     • Case report
     • Accessibility
     • Medicine - Cardiology

   By Patient Safety Learning, 26 January

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   • 26 January

6. Reducing inpatient deterioration and improving patient safety in emergency departments with a standardised nursing framework: A stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial (20 October 2025)

   • Emergency medicine
   • Patient safety incident
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Emergency medicine
     • Patient safety incident
     • Deterioration
     • Research

   By Patient Safety Learning, 21 October, 2025

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   • 21 October, 2025

7. Poor continence care in overwhelmed emergency departments is leading to avoidable harm

   • Medicine - Dermatology
   • Accident and Emergency
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Medicine - Dermatology
     • Accident and Emergency
     • Hospital corridor

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 21 July, 2025

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   • 21 July, 2025

8. Realising the three shifts: preventing more people from reaching crisis point will be one measure of success (22 April 2025)

   • Accident and Emergency
   • Emergency medicine
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Accident and Emergency
     • Emergency medicine
     • Community care
     • Social Care
     • Patient

   By Patient Safety Learning, 30 April, 2025

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   • 30 April, 2025

9. Seen and heard: Understanding frequent attendance at A&E. An analysis of frequent attendance data at A&E in Dorset (November 2024)

   • Emergency medicine
   • Accident and Emergency
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Emergency medicine
     • Accident and Emergency
     • Research
     • Social determinants of health
     • Deprivation

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 30 January, 2025

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   • 30 January, 2025

10. A joint statement on urgent and emergency care reform (22 January 2025)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Accident and Emergency
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Emergency medicine
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Community care
      • Primary care
      • Discharge
      • Care coordination

    By Patient Safety Learning, 22 January, 2025

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    • 22 January, 2025

11. Association between time spent in emergency care and 30-day post-discharge mortality, England: March 2021 to April 2022 (ONS, 17 January 2025)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Accident and Emergency
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Emergency medicine
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Data
      • Discharge
      • Lack of resources
      • Organisational Performance

    By Patient Safety Learning, 20 January, 2025

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    • 20 January, 2025

12. The mythbuster: The zombie idea that demand is causing long A&E waits must die (HSJ, 3 January 2025)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Lack of resources
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Emergency medicine
      • Lack of resources
      • Communication

    By Patient Safety Learning, 7 January, 2025

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    • 7 January, 2025

13. Winter pressures and emergency care: a view from A&E (The King's Fund, 29 November 2024)

    • Accident and Emergency
    • Emergency medicine
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Accident and Emergency
      • Emergency medicine
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Organisational Performance

    By Patient Safety Learning, 3 December, 2024

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    • 3 December, 2024

14. Delayed admission of patients with hip fracture from the emergency department is associated with an increased mortality risk and increased length of hospital stay (8 October 2024)

    • Emergency medicine
    • ED admission
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      • Emergency medicine
      • ED admission
      • Research
      • Older People (over 65)
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Patient death

    By Patient Safety Learning, 9 October, 2024

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    • 9 October, 2024

15. Interrogating and uprooting systemic racism in the emergency department (23 August 2024)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Race
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Emergency medicine
      • Race
      • Discrimination
      • Health inequalities
      • Health Disparities

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 22 September, 2024

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    • 22 September, 2024

16. Dad spent two of the last days of his life alone and distressed in A&E – for no good reason. This insanity must stop (3 April 2024)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Accident and Emergency
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Emergency medicine
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Older People (over 65)
      • Decision making
      • Deterioration
      • Person-centred care
      • Medicine - Geriatric

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 26 June, 2024

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    • 26 June, 2024

17. Undercover A&E: NHS in crisis (Channel 4 Dispatches, 29 June 2024)

    • Accident and Emergency
    • Emergency medicine
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      • Accident and Emergency
      • Emergency medicine
      • Lack of resources
      • Organisation / service factors

    By Patient Safety Learning, 25 June, 2024

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    • 25 June, 2024

18. Partnership working between A&E, the police and custody healthcare

    • Police
    • Mental health
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Police
      • Mental health
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Prison
      • Teamwork
      • Collaboration

    By Craig.russo, 17 June, 2024

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    • Comment by Craig.russo
    • 22 July, 2024

19. Urgent Matters: Improving Safety in Massachusetts Emergency Departments (August 2019)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Accident and Emergency
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Emergency medicine
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Safety process

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 10 June, 2024

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    • 10 June, 2024

20. Impact of collaborative nursing care delivery on patient safety events in an emergency intensive care unit: A retrospective observational study (June 2024)

    • Emergency medicine
    • ICU/ ITU/ HDU
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      • Emergency medicine
      • ICU/ ITU/ HDU
      • Nurse
      • Workforce management
      • Teamwork

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 7 June, 2024

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    • 7 June, 2024

21. A strategic solution to preventing the harm associated with ambulance handover delays (30 April 2024)

    • Research
    • Handover
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Research
      • Handover
      • Ambulance
      • Quality improvement

    By Patient Safety Learning, 5 June, 2024

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    • 5 June, 2024

22. Overnight stay in the emergency department and mortality in older patients (6 November 2023)

    • Older People (over 65)
    • Emergency medicine
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Older People (over 65)
      • Emergency medicine
      • Long waiting list
      • Lack of resources
      • Patient death

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 17 April, 2024

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    • 17 April, 2024

23. The mythbuster: Long A&E waits kill 35 people daily; why isn’t NHSE more concerned? (HSJ, 8 April 2024)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Accident and Emergency
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Emergency medicine
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Long waiting list
      • Organisational Performance
      • Patient death
      • Leadership

    By Patient Safety Learning, 10 April, 2024

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    • 10 April, 2024

24. RCEM General Election Manifesto – #ResuscitateEmergencyCare

    • Emergency medicine
    • Ambulance
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      • Emergency medicine
      • Ambulance
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Leadership
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Lack of resources
      • Long waiting list

    By Patient Safety Learning, 5 April, 2024

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    • 5 April, 2024

25. Insights: Long waits and excess deaths (Royal College of Emergency Medicine, 1 April 2024)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Data
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Emergency medicine
      • Data
      • Patient death
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Long waiting list
      • Lack of resources
      • Organisation / service factors

    By Patient Safety Learning, 2 April, 2024

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    • 2 April, 2024