This can include treatment for a severe injury, period of illness, urgent medical condition, or to recover from surgery. In the NHS, it often includes services such as accident and emergency (A&E) departments, inpatient and outpatient medicine and surgery.
Our recent work and content on this topic is listed below.
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Six charts looking at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on consultant-led elective care.
A new report published today by the Health Foundation’s REAL Centre raise concerns that the nursing shortfalls, together with the backlog in routine care and growing need for health care, is likely to...
An assessment of personal protective equipment programme supporting clinical staff in London during Covid-19 pandemic.
Aiming to improve patient flow and safety in the trust’s intensive care unit by providing staff with the information they need to make data-driven decisions about clinical care and capacity. A reporti...
Analysis of medication-related problems in intensive care survivors.
Changes in the overall number of ambulance incidents have been small but there are large changes in how ambulances treat patients, with fewer being taken to A&E and more treated at the scene.
Project to improve care for major trauma patients by quality assuring rehabilitation alongside acute care. Linked major trauma PROMs to national clinical audit data to enable the construction of a pre...
A model development and external validation study.
Aiming to save lives and secure greater independence for hip fracture patients.
This three-year project will test and evaluate the scalability of using natural language processing to analyse patient feedback and provide information to point-of-care staff and quality improvement l...
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