Emergency Admissions: A jouney in the right direction? (2007)

In this study, NCEPOD has assessed organisational and clinical aspects of both the immediate and ongoing care of patients admitted as emergencies. The report highlights remediable factors in existing care pathways, particularly the appropriateness, timeliness and frequency of investigations and reviews, the experience of staff and the availability of results, protocols and procedures.

View/Save Report (680Kb)
An Adobe Acrobat copy of this report is available to view/save. The Adobe Acrobat reader is required which is free to download here.

Executive Summary (286Kb)
An Adobe Acrobat copy of the summary of this report is available to view/save. The Adobe Acrobat reader is required which is free to download here.

Slides (2.3Mb)
Dr Marisa Mason, Chief Executive, NCEPOD
Dr Jim Stewart, Clinical Co-ordinator, NCEPOD
Dr David Mason, Clinical Co-ordinator, NCEPOD
Mr Ian Martin, Clinicial Co-ordinator, NCEPOD
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Emercency Admissions - The Trolley Tsar's View (369Kb)
Professor Sir George Alberti, National Director of Emergency Access
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Emergency Admissions - Emergency Medicine Perspective (1.1Mb)
Mr Jim Wardrope, President of The College of Emergency Medicine
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Emergency Admissions & the Trustee Patients Association (122Kb)
Mrs Roswyn Hakesky-Brown, The Patients Association
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Emergency Admissions - (review of) A journey in the right direction (98Kb)
Dr Richard Hall, Consultant in Emergency Medicine
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Self assessment checklist for trusts (116Kb)
This toolkit allows Trusts to check their progress in adopting NCEPOD's recommendations following the 2007 report 'Emergency Admissions: A journey in the right direction?'. This toolkit is for your use, and information generated should be shared within your trust. We do not require the completed forms to be returned to NCEPODThe Adobe Acrobat reader is required which is free to download here.