ED #overcrowding & #accessblock is a challenge everywhere!

140 in an ED and 60+ waiting just before the night shift starts.

This picture is similar across Oz

This is why I left the U.K. (which is in as bad or worse a situation).

Why are Govs not dealing with ramping, access block, crowding?

Patterns in California Ambulance Patient Offload Times by Local Emergency Medical Services. Delays are not unique to Australia or the UK. #EMS #ramping #accessblock jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Expert in-reach for unscheduled care?

It sounds like Dr. Naso & Dr. Schirippa have something to offer in person to make our system better.


#NSQHS #equity #mentalhealth #accessblock #EDovercrowding #ACEM

Hospital occupancy might be a proven metric for chronic ED risk but should it be used as a measure of real-time #accessblock or an acute trigger for escalation?
#EDovercrowding #hospitaloccupancy #dashboard
@JudkinsSimon @preexcitation13 @MMorphett @drmedmonds @anitmans

If insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, what are we going to do to change our rhetoric? @JudkinsSimon @preexcitation13 @AWalterPerry @MMorphett #EDOvercrowding #Accessblock #patientflow #hospitalavoidance

Lindsay Baker does not disappoint. The funniest and most passionate talk I have ever heard on #changemanagement #accessblock #EDovercrowding Our hospital executive could learn a thing or two. #EMSA18

We need to get bureaucrats to understand that the #EmergencyDepartment manages and filters the risk of the entire hospital. And #accessblock decreases our ability to do this effectively when we cannot decant stable patients to another area of the hospital #EMSA18

We need to get bureaucrats to know when #EmergencyPhysicians adds value to patient care and when rest of hospital does. Being satisfied they are in the general vicinity of the hospital achieves nothing. #EMSA18 #accessblock

#Accessblock is predominantly a burden on #EDnursing #resources the ED doctors have already done most of the work (waiting for inpatient teams to do theirs). #EMSA18

Megan Brooks. Director of nRAH explaining how you articulate the concept of #ED #accessblock to people who don’t work in the #ED #EMSA18

#EMSA18 advises us to practice a #disasterplan. I live it every day #EDovercrowding #accessblock #ramping #queuing