Emergency admissions and hospital beds
Open Access
- 1 June 2009
- journal article
- Published by Mark Allen Group in British Journal of Healthcare Management
- Vol. 15 (6), 289-296
- https://doi.org/10.12968/bjhc.2009.15.6.42572
Abstract
Parts one and two of this series discussed the components of a variety of trends and longer-term cycles leading to increasing emergency admissions. This article discusses the issues of bed planning for emergency admissions in light of the annual summer/winter and long-term cycles. The impact of changing to single sex wards and the provision for zero day stay admissions is also discussed.Keywords
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