“This data should serve as a huge wake up call for the Welsh government as winter looms.". Emergency Departments across Wales are experiencing a summertime surge with the number of patients facing 12-hour waits reaching its highest level so far this year in July. Read the

More than 51,400 people aged 60 and over endured waits of 12 hours or more in Scotland’s Emergency Departments last year – new analysis from RCEM reveals. That’s 14,407 more patients than the year before (2023). And is over 16 times more people than in 2019 when just 3,135

Journal Club @acutemedicine THIS WEDNESDAY!. I'll look at the evidence for VTE prophylaxis - and what we can learn as our care pathways change. I'll present our work from SDEC - looking at VTE risk as a 'Hospital acquired VTE'. Then you decide what we do about the results. .

@acutemedicine’s Hot Weather Health Plan has advice for clinicians to:. 🔵work safely during hot weather conditions.🔵know who is at risk and adapt individual care plans.🔵be aware of medication risks.🔵know how to treat heat-related illnesses.🔵share advice with patients from.

As heat health alerts are issued across many parts of the country today, we welcome timely new guidance from @acutemedicine to support health professionals management of patients during extreme heat - check out the Heat Health Plan here >>

Society for Acute Medicine @acutemedicine has published a clinical climate adaptation plan! Including medicines 💊to review during heatwaves ☀️ .

The NHS in England is planning "previously unthinkable" cuts to try to balance the books, health bosses say. Services including diabetes care for young people, rehab centres and talking therapies are in the firing line, according to NHS Providers.

The 12 hour stays are ummm 😢 We need the same focus and operational grip on 12 hour stays as we do for 4 hours. Last year 4 hour performace improved, while 12 hour worsened. The greatest harm occurs in the 12 hour stays

But don’t worry, we (nearly) achieve a 78% performance against the 4hr standard. 🙄.

For those who got ST4 Acute Medicine offers today and are on the fence whether they should go ahead, give this blog by Zack Ferguson a read ! .

Pretty chuffed with this work. We show that having POCUS trained clinicians performing and reporting scans as part of acute care leads to a dramatic reduction in departmental radiology requests. We help not hinder!. More reasons to embed this in daily practice where possible. .

People with cancer who have emergency admissions are are at a very high risk of death - why aren’t we talking to people about this before, during or after an AO admission? @macmillancancer & @UKAOSociety asked oncologists and non oncologists why.

Last week I did a lot of messing around with line charts and scatterplots to try and show how Acute Medical Unit (AMU) length of stay has changed over the last few years. I think I just needed to draw two boxplots. @VickyKomrower @DrLKVaughan @dr_allancameron .#rstats #ggplot2

#TipsForNewDocs. Before ordering a test, have a plan for a normal, abnormal, or indeterminate result. If this thought experiment demonstrates the test won’t change management, or if you don’t know how to interpret/act upon all possible results, don’t order it. #kittlesonrules.