An evening in accident and emergency (a blog by Richard Smith)

Summary

In this article, published on Richard Smith's non-medical blogs, Richard describes the events surrounding his elderly mothers trip to A&E from her care home. Richard highlights a number of safety issues in his account and improvements that could be made to the system and processes.

"The nurses have much more confidence in the benefits of the hospital than I do. Hospitals, I know, are dangerous and miserable places for everybody but particularly for the demented; and the danger is increased in the pandemic. There has to be considerable benefit to outweigh the inbuilt risk."