CO
Awareness and the Katie Haines Memorial Trust have produced a poster, supported
by the College, which is aimed directly at medical and nursing staff in
Emergency Departments.
The
GMC has issued new guidance to every doctor in the UK to help them protect
children from abuse or neglect. The guidance underlines the
duty on doctors to act if they are concerned that a child or young person is at
risk. It provides detailed advice for doctors on information sharing,
working in partnership with other agencies, consent for child protection
examinations, acting as a witness in court, and where to turn for support. The
guidance will come into effect on 3
September 2012.
The
ED team at Sunderland Royal Hospital has kindly shared a number of discharge advice leaflets for a variety of conditions.
These are available for you to download and use in your own ED.
A working party from the Royal College of Physicians
(RCP) developed and piloted a National Early Warning Score for recognising very
sick patients whose condition is deteriorating and who need more intensive
medical or nursing care. If implemented across the NHS, it would result in a
step-change upwards in patient safety.
New
guidelines for complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) have been developed to provide greater clarity for the diagnosis and management of the syndrome,
as well as recommendations for treatment and referral of patients with CRPS.
