“Focus on consistent habits & great cadence before marginal gains.”
Figure at some point you need a motto in life that you can stick to.
It’s not catchy but I think it’s true!
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Greater Manchester’s growth success is real, but didn't happened by accident. The country should be studying it closely.
Long-term strategy that is aggressively pro-growth, pro-development & pro-FDI works if given time and consistency
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@kurtstat@TJCoats Could probably add in for both graphs - marginal gains thinking is only the icing on the cake for both marathon and ECS performance. You’ve got to get the basic processes sorted/base miles in to build that solid cake before tinkering with the bits round the edges/fancy decoration
"As an unabashed socialist, I am concerned with the distribution of wealth, but if you don’t create any in the first place it is a bit of an empty discussion." > Sir Richard Leese. If there is a meaningful concept of "Manchesterism" then this would be it for me.
@philatrail The Picc - York via Cas should be a no brainier to avoid Leeds and link Wakefield to Manchester. No other service provides that link currently and it seems well used.
I usually illustrate my Heaviness Hypothesis* with AMU data. But I wondered if ED heaviness explains ED length of stay better than mere ED fullness does. And it does! (Though it's marginal!)
(*ED exit block is better explained by AMU heaviness than it is by mere AMU fullness.)
"To thrive, Britain must embrace failure: If London, Oxford, and Cambridge continue to know that they are too big and too cherished to fail, Britain will not thrive. It is neither unpatriotic nor populist (as Burnham was accused of being) to say so." https://t.co/tXGlSG0aOY
The peerless Professor Harold Ellis died yesterday at 100 years old. I am sure he would want us to celebrate his life by sharing his teaching. He was a wonderful wonderful man, take 9 minutes to learn the plexus from him - https://t.co/IdyqBOGRuh
Clinical deterioration is an underappreciated risk of ED boarding.
In a multi-center study of >173,000 admissions, nearly 1 in 25 ED boarders admitted to the floor experienced early clinical deterioration requiring an admission to an advanced level of care, with almost half occurring before leaving the ED. Each additional hour of boarding was independently associated with an increased risk of deterioration, and deterioration carried substantially higher 28-day mortality.
Identifying high-risk patients early may prevent avoidable escalations in care and patient harm.
#EDBoarding #PatientSafety #EmergencyMedicine #EM #HealthPolicy #SocialMedicine
The association between long emergency department stays and inpatient length of stay: a retrospective cohort study | BMC Emergency Medicine | Springer Nature Link. Published today by my residents. Another harm of long ED stays… 1/n https://t.co/2QFTpWQFpQ
It’s not just a UK phenomenon though @kurtstat - have a listen to the latest @SGem podcast. Similar issues, with some different terminology (alternate levels of care = no reason to reside) but essentially the same problem and same results - higher mortality and burnout etc.