{"id":455,"date":"2020-01-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2020-1-17-bmjdaukslamsunacceptablemovetodishcargeearly\/"},"modified":"2020-01-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T00:00:00","slug":"2020-1-17-bmjdaukslamsunacceptablemovetodishcargeearly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2020-1-17-bmjdaukslamsunacceptablemovetodishcargeearly\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK in the BMJ: Doctors slam \u201cunacceptable\u201d move after hospital asks clinicians to discharge patients early"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Medical leaders have warned that doctors and patients are being placed at risk after it emerged that an NHS hospital had encouraged doctors to discharge patients early because of a lack of beds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The internal email to senior clinicians, seen by the BBC, was sent by the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust in response to \u201csignificant pressure\u201d on services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To free up capacity the trust said that it was having to consider discharging patients \u201cearlier than some clinicians would like.\u201d It admitted that these patients could come to harm, describing the move as a \u201cproportionate risk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rinesh Parmar, chair of the Doctors\u2019 Association UK and an Intensive Care doctor, said that his association understood the \u201cextreme pressures\u201d that NHS trusts were currently under after a decade of underfunding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But he added, \u201cThis is morally repugnant and against the very fibre of what doctors stand for. We care for our patients and respect their dignity [rather than] simply dispatching them early into the community to already overstretched, struggling services. Our patients deserve better than these shortsighted ploys to generate beds the expense of their health.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/368\/bmj.m164<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Doctors\u2019 Association UK speaks to the BMJ after an internal email to senior clinicians at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust encourages discharging patients \u2018earlier than some clinicians would like\u2019 admitting that these patients could come to harm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,92],"tags":[154,46,33,155,156],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassionate-culture","category-learn-not-blame","tag-bmj","tag-dr-rinesh-parmar","tag-press","tag-risky-discharge","tag-royal-cornwall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}