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发表于 2013-8-6 12:11
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homework:
In theory, telephone triage was a good idea, in practice, at times, it was anything but…
Realistically, on the weekends, we still are unsate. We don’t have the staff to deal with calls that are coming in.
This investigation by two undercover reporters in Bristle and Dorking highlighted everything that was going wrong.
At NHS 111.
I remember once we sent an ambulance for a cat scratch.
This medical center in southeast London has 20,000 patients, the service lasted just a couple of days here in March, before buckling.
We couldn’t manage the volume of the calls, the time to answer calls were long, the process the patients have to go through till they get an answer from this system is very protracted, a lot of patients gave up before they even got to that stage. The commissioner of the service locally realized that the service was potentially dangerous and pulled it very quickly.
It’s emerged that officially evaluation of the NHS pilot scheme had not been published before the contracts were signed. NHS direct based the entire operation on pilots where they expected to earn £13 a call, in fact, they brought in between £7-9 a call, leaving a huge shortfall. In addition, each call took twice as long as expected. Critics argue that replacing nurses with computers were destined to end badly.
It’s all got too complicated, I think the simple thing is go back to a system that was nurse led. Under NHS direct, nurses used to handle around 60 to 70 percent of the calls. That’s gonna write down to about 20%, and in the end you get what you paid for, and that’s the basic service we’ve got at the moment.
Some still believe that well far from perfect, the system has a future.
People need to understand that we’re not complacent about this, this was a real issue. Things are much improved, but we can do better and we will do better, and we will be continuously looking at ways that we could improve this service.
Do you think I should chat to a clinician or just do it?
We haven’t got the clinicians to spare.
The immediate challenge now was to find someone to take on the contract an NHS direct is pulling out of, restoring confidence may prove even harder.
NV Brady, Skynews. |
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