{"id":602,"date":"2020-12-15T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-on-medscape-scrapping-4-hour-wait-target\/"},"modified":"2020-12-15T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T11:35:00","slug":"dauk-on-medscape-scrapping-4-hour-wait-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-on-medscape-scrapping-4-hour-wait-target\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK on Medscape: &#8220;Scrapping 4 Hour Wait Target&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Doctors&#8217; Association features in this Medscape review noting how NHS England has launched a consultation on &#8216;Transformation of urgent and emergency care&#8217;. This could signal the end of 4 hour A&amp;E waiting time targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The review began in 2018 and the latest document acknowledges that the pandemic has further reduced bed capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK&#8217;s president, and senior registrar in emergency and intensive care medicine, Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden commented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The 4-hour target is considered by many frontline doctors as not fit for purpose, with patients continuing to wait hours in Emergency Departments this winter as in many recent winters.<\/p><p>&#8220;We are pleased that NHS England is launching this consultation in partnership with frontline staff to develop alternative patient-focused targets; going forward we must ensure that these are backed up with the staff and resources to achieve them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/942664\" class=\"rank-math-link\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Doctors&#8217; Association features in this Medscape review noting how NHS England has launched a consultation on &#8216;Transformation of urgent and emergency care&#8217;. This could&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[293,38,132,89],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protect-the-frontline","tag-4-hour-target","tag-dauk","tag-nhs","tag-nhs-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","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=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}