All Journals from Roger Duckitt
For this year’s spring meeting, the Society for Acute Medicine took us to Bournemouth on the sunny south coast of England. The Marsham Court Hotel served as an excellent venue for this, the ninth meeting of the society, which ran for two days over the 22nd and 23rd of April. Sunshine, the grand Pier and long stretches of raked beach augmented a relaxed and friendly atmosphere and provided a spectacular backdrop for coffee breaks between sessions.
Abstract
The Society for Acute Medicine’s Benchmarking Audit (SAMBA) was undertaken for the 5th time in June 2016. For the first time, data on telephone triage calls prior to admission to Acute Medical Units were collected: 1238 patients were referred from Emergency Departments, 925 from General Practitioners (GPs), 52 from clinics and 147 from other sources.
Calls from Emergency Departments rarely resulted in admission avoidance.
Calls from Primary Care resulted in avoidance of an admission in 115 (12%) patients; the percentage of avoided admissions was highest if the call was taken by a Consultant.
Consultant triage might result in admission avoidance but the impact of local context on the effectiveness is not clear.
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Acute Medicine remains high on the agenda at all levels of organisation and planning in Healthcare provision and training in the UK. In March 2006, an RCP report to the Health Committee Inquiry on Workforce Needs and Planning for the Health Service said, ”The specialty of acute medicine is a new initiative and is likely to deliver improvements in delivery of this critical and expanding area of care in the NHS. To drive development we believe the number of SpRs and consultants in the field need rapid expansion to gain critical mass to deliver acute medicine efficiently.”
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