It's actually an underestimate. We had to apply findings for 8-12 hours to people who had spent MORE than 12 hours. It doesn't include the deaths from delayed ambulance care and people who aren't admitted. #crowdingkills
🚨NEW ANALYSIS: in 2020-21 in England, we predict there were at least 4519 excess deaths due to crowding. This is unacceptable.
Read RCEM's Acute Insight Series: crowding and its consequences here
🧵Here's what we found.
#CrowdingKills
Available in an in-box near you now! The latest LPB- featuring some things we didn’t get quite right (and some good stuff too)..and what they tell us about how we can do things better -Stay positive folks @LeedsHospitals @philwoodLTHT @julianhartley1 @ptsafetylearn@ptsafetyNHS
Coming to an in box near you , the latest Learning Points Bulletin. Some of the things that have not to gone to plan that we can learn from, and some good news stories too @LeedsHospitals@JDBLeeds#patientsafety
Coming to an in box / safety huddle / staff room / mess near you soon - Learning Points Bulletin - Communications- learn from some of the things we haven’t got right in the past @JDBLeeds@LeedsHospitals@yvetteoade1 @hsib_org
Welcome to all new staff at LTHT. We are committed to learning from things that don’t always go the way we want - read about previous errors and how to avoid them on the intranet @JDBLeeds@yvetteoade1@StuHainesHBS@LeedsHospitals
@JDBLeeds@yvetteoade1@LeedsHospitals -Welcome to all new Docs across LTHT-We are committed to improving care by learning from things that don’t always go as we would wish -Take a look at the Lessons Learned Site and bulletins -link on LTHT homepage - could save you some angst
One of my favourite images, which describes 20 cognitive biases. I usually share this with my GP trainees, but tonight I’m thinking it very much applies to politics too...