A critical incident was declared at a maternity unit after both its lifts stopped working on Monday. The George Eliot ...

A critical incident that was declared at a maternity unit all its lifts were left out of action has been lifted. The problems ...

Background: In recent years, there has been a growth in the use of triage nurses to decrease general practitioner (GP) workloads and increase the efficiency of telephone triage. The actual safety of ...

Two studies reported deaths and found no difference between nurse telephone triage and normal care. Telephone consultation appears to reduce the number of surgery contacts and out-of-hours visits by ...

Stine Engebretsen (born 1975) is a Staff Development Nurse. She has a postgraduate diploma in emergency nursing and has an MA degree in clinical nursing. The author has completed the ICMJE form and ...

Our findings are in line with the results from a pragmatic controlled trial of telephone triage among patients seeking a same-day GP appointment which showed that nurse-led triage was associated with ...

The ER is unpredictable; you never know who will walk through the door. Emergency physicians have to triage—quickly assess a ...

We count on them during our worst moments, but many of us don’t realize the constant threat faced by healthcare workers: ...

Background The burden of cardiovascular events in Africa is projected to rise significantly in the coming decade, placing ...

Through the Access2Care triage system, nurses deliver “the right resource at the right time, in the right setting to achieve the right outcome at the right cost,” according to their website.