The demands on A&E are unrelenting, so new solutions are sought.
"Acute medicine is a fairly new speciality," said unit head Dr Nerys Conway.
"I could bring them back the next day or the following week or even a couple of weeks later and just review them again. But I manage to do that by avoiding admission while still seeing them safely." "Yesterday was an extremely busy day," said Donna Seldon, senior nurse in the Royal Glamorgan's emergency department."Overall we saw around 200 patients in a 24-hour period - at one point there were 72 patients in the department.And that's with a full complement of staff, she said.
May's official figures for the "hours lost" by paramedics waiting to hand patients over to hospital staff backs that up, falling from 2,867 hours to 964. Hepatologist Dr Dai Samuel sees a large number of his patients on the unit too, typically those in liver failure.'Once you're in hospital, it's actually very difficult to get out,' says hepatologist Dr Dai Samuel
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